And a quick look tells me I may wish to undo the ZSL hedge trade and concentrate on other areas. Gold? Yup, the usual herds are aligning to play their usual roles.
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GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. Code-088691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 01/25/11 |
--------------------------------------------------------------| 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: 735,631
COMMITMENTS
234,717 58,889 165,344 258,399 474,879 658,461 699,112 77,170 36,519
CHANGES FROM 01/18/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -66,302)
-9,337 4,269 -47,091 -9,327 -26,466 -65,755 -69,288 -546 2,986
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
31.9 8.0 22.5 35.1 64.6 89.5 95.0 10.5 5.0
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 396)
221 94 166 62 58 339 269
SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. Code-084691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 01/25/11 |
--------------------------------------------------------------| 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: 174,347
COMMITMENTS
39,090 8,393 61,800 39,053 85,610 139,943 155,803 34,404 18,545
CHANGES FROM 01/18/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -8,860)
-952 368 -8,283 -798 -2,642 -10,032 -10,557 1,173 1,697
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
22.4 4.8 35.4 22.4 49.1 80.3 89.4 19.7 10.6
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 200)
96 54 72 38 40 167 135
