Gold & Silver CoTs hot off the presses…
http://www.biiwii.blogspot.com Large speculators liked gold less on Tuesday. Bet they like it even less now.
GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. Code-088691
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 01/04/11 |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
LONG | SHORT |SPREADS | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT
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(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES) OPEN INTEREST: 592,613
COMMITMENTS
250,305 47,987 68,997 193,319 447,901 512,621 564,885 79,992 27,728
CHANGES FROM 12/28/10 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -1,877)
-7,840 5,630 -4,196 2,879 -2,309 -9,157 -875 7,280 -1,002
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
42.2 8.1 11.6 32.6 75.6 86.5 95.3 13.5 4.7
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 360)
209 69 72 53 51 295 166
SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. Code-084691
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 01/04/11 |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
LONG | SHORT |SPREADS | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT
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(CONTRACTS OF 5,000 TROY OUNCES) OPEN INTEREST: 136,931
COMMITMENTS
40,483 10,448 34,204 29,598 79,349 104,285 124,001 32,646 12,930
CHANGES FROM 12/28/10 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -987)
-1,056 1,028 866 -688 -1,828 -878 66 -109 -1,053
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
29.6 7.6 25.0 21.6 57.9 76.2 90.6 23.8 9.4
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 172)
78 38 37 32 42 135 96
Source: Gold & Silver CoTs hot off the presses...
