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Friday, March 11, 2011

Gold & Silver CoT hot off the presses...

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GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 03/08/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      740,976
COMMITMENTS
 268,600   42,527  162,099  222,668  508,120  653,368  712,746   87,608   28,231

CHANGES FROM 03/01/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:       -461)
  -6,584   -2,332    8,932   -3,946   -4,614   -1,597    1,986    1,136   -2,448

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    36.2      5.7     21.9     30.1     68.6     88.2     96.2     11.8      3.8

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      407)
     259       67      147       56       62      357      242
SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 03/08/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 5,000 TROY OUNCES)                     OPEN INTEREST:      188,821
COMMITMENTS
  51,383    7,726   59,184   41,376  102,343  151,944  169,254   36,877   19,567

CHANGES FROM 03/01/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:      3,380)
     753     -857    3,723      674      230    5,150    3,097   -1,770      284

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    27.2      4.1     31.3     21.9     54.2     80.5     89.6     19.5     10.4

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      204)
     111       35       62       38       47      169      127