CoT Gold & Silver hot off the presses...

And no, it's not so good this week.  Gold speculators liked it on this rise, and commercials?  Not so much.  Silver has pulled in the speculators on this rise. 

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GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 02/08/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      653,146
COMMITMENTS
 237,138   45,857  126,645  213,458  449,433  577,240  621,935   75,906   31,211

CHANGES FROM 02/01/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:     11,913)
  14,748   -5,827   -1,437   -3,224   18,102   10,087   10,838    1,825    1,074

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    36.3      7.0     19.4     32.7     68.8     88.4     95.2     11.6      4.8

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      380)
     226       75      142       62       58      329      240

SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 02/08/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 5,000 TROY OUNCES)                     OPEN INTEREST:      189,623
COMMITMENTS
  44,895    5,666   65,664   42,078   95,718  152,637  167,049   36,985   22,574

CHANGES FROM 02/01/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:     14,549)
   6,273      206    5,225      121    5,908   11,619   11,339    2,930    3,210

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    23.7      3.0     34.6     22.2     50.5     80.5     88.1     19.5     11.9

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      195)
      99       40       71       37       42      166      130