Friday, February 25, 2011

Gold & Silver CoT (not so) Hot off the Presses

Sorry for the delay.  Got busy today.
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GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 02/22/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      725,747
COMMITMENTS
 260,938   47,688  151,590  227,870  494,661  640,398  693,939   85,348   31,807

CHANGES FROM 02/15/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:     61,636)
  17,778    3,954   21,096   14,796   34,410   53,670   59,460    7,966    2,176

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    36.0      6.6     20.9     31.4     68.2     88.2     95.6     11.8      4.4

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      416)
     253       86      153       58       58      358      256
 

SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 02/22/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 5,000 TROY OUNCES)                     OPEN INTEREST:      213,276
COMMITMENTS
  51,404    7,928   73,547   45,559  107,150  170,509  188,625   42,766   24,651

CHANGES FROM 02/15/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:      9,580)
     532    1,159    2,825       84    2,902    3,441    6,886    6,138    2,694

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    24.1      3.7     34.5     21.4     50.2     79.9     88.4     20.1     11.6

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      214)
     109       46       71       39       49      176      142