Friday, February 4, 2011

Gold & Silver CoT hot off the presses...

GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 02/01/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| 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:      641,234
COMMITMENTS
 222,390   51,684  128,082  216,682  431,331  567,153  611,097   74,080   30,137

CHANGES FROM 01/25/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:    -94,397)
 -12,328   -7,205  -37,262  -41,717  -43,548  -91,307  -88,016   -3,090   -6,382

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    34.7      8.1     20.0     33.8     67.3     88.4     95.3     11.6      4.7

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      368)
     210       83      141       57       56      308      244
SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 02/01/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| 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:      175,074
COMMITMENTS
  38,622    5,460   60,439   41,957   89,810  141,018  155,709   34,056   19,364

CHANGES FROM 01/25/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:        727)
    -468   -2,933   -1,361    2,904    4,200    1,075      -93     -349      820

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    22.1      3.1     34.5     24.0     51.3     80.5     88.9     19.5     11.1

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      192)
      97       41       70       37       43      162      130
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