Gold & Silver CoT hot off the presses

What do you know?  Continued improvement in the CoT structure as the wash, rinse, repeat cycle spins on...

GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 03/20/12                         |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  LONG  | SHORT  |SPREADS |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      431,039
COMMITMENTS
 175,009   43,546   31,719  166,859  332,997  373,587  408,262   57,452   22,777

CHANGES FROM 03/13/12 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:    -11,280)
 -15,468    3,975   -6,738   15,424  -10,126   -6,782  -12,889   -4,498    1,609

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
    40.6     10.1      7.4     38.7     77.3     86.7     94.7     13.3      5.3

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      299)
     158       73       77       49       48      242      169

SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 03/20/12                         |
--------------------------------------------------------------| 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:      111,422
COMMITMENTS
  28,489    7,320   24,246   37,622   69,748   90,357  101,314   21,065   10,108

CHANGES FROM 03/13/12 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:       -308)
      30      677     -539    2,281   -1,224    1,772   -1,086   -2,080      778

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
    25.6      6.6     21.8     33.8     62.6     81.1     90.9     18.9      9.1

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      150)
      65       31       41       36       44      119       99 

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