Quote from ogarbitrage:
The futures markets aren't real. It's the silver eagle market that's the real commodity market.
Quote from DontMissTheBus:
Why do you say that? There's 259,86,240 troy oz of silver issued in the form of silver eagle since 1986 (the first year). There's over 561MM troy oz worth of open interest in the 1st silver contract on cmx alone...
Why would you say futures contracts are not real while silver eagles are. There's no arb between silver futures and silver spot.