Secular Ruling Families show how it's done!
This one's for the history books! Friday’s Silver Massacre Jan 30, 2026 Friday, January 30, 2026 will go down in history as the day silver experienced what statisticians would call “impossible”. Let’s run through the superlatives, because they’re genuinely mind-bending. Silver crashed 31% in a single session. From Thursday’s all-time high of $121.78 to settlement at $78.53. That’s a 14-sigma event if you use a 10-year volatility baseline. For context, a 7-sigma event should happen once every 3 billion years. We’re talking statistical impossibilities - the kind of moves that only occur when something breaks. But even against January’s already-insane volatility, this was a 6-7 sigma move . And if you’re not scared witless here yet… we’ve had multiple 4-5 sigma events this month alone. January 26 saw a 14% intraday swing - up 7%, then down 7% in hours. That’s a 4-sigma event. It happened on a Monday. Then Tuesday brought another 8% move...