RE:So lmenofluff wrote: put limits on the amount of copper that can b removed each day by large traders. Trafigra claims the copper is for customers. It might cap price for a bit. But if u are short, u r short. It should help the smaller guys.
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Big customers who are dependent on copper see prices rising and a shortage coming, so they try to stock up ahead of the storm--thus making prices rise more and create shortages. This is what an inflationary environment looks like.
This is just like Costco limiting customers to only one enormous package of toilet paper. Purchase limitations usually help keep things orderly until production can be increased and supplies restocked. The problem with copper is that unless there is a huge pick up in scrap, adjustments in supply cannot be made easily.
The only way to lower the price of copper is to decrease demand.