Friday, June 10, 2011

Gold & Silver CoTs hot off the presses...

GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 06/07/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| 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:      730,025
COMMITMENTS
 265,739   34,446  153,464  233,997  515,402  653,200  703,312   76,825   26,714

CHANGES FROM 05/31/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:     14,168)
   4,246   -4,064    8,124    1,942   10,164   14,312   14,224     -144      -56

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    36.4      4.7     21.0     32.1     70.6     89.5     96.3     10.5      3.7

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      378)
239       66      126       51       54      326      212 
SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 06/07/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| 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:      186,987
COMMITMENTS
  29,619    6,270   71,800   52,553   93,481  153,972  171,550   33,015   15,437

CHANGES FROM 05/31/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:       -314)
    -687        4      -56    1,281      -20      538      -72     -852     -242

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    15.8      3.4     38.4     28.1     50.0     82.3     91.7     17.7      8.3

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      201)
     101       35       88       42       48      175      148