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Friday, September 2, 2011

CoT Gold & Silver Report - interesting... 

GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 08/30/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      955,019
COMMITMENTS
 257,750   25,112  290,128  325,952  600,409  873,830  915,650   81,189   39,369

CHANGES FROM 08/23/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:    -79,960)
 -21,761   -6,430  -34,506  -19,319  -34,501  -75,587  -75,437   -4,373   -4,523

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    27.0      2.6     30.4     34.1     62.9     91.5     95.9      8.5      4.1

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      382)
     239       72      156       55       54      339      240

 
 
SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 08/30/11          |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  Long  | Short  |Spreads |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short  |  Long  | Short
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 5,000 TROY OUNCES)                     OPEN INTEREST:      165,277
COMMITMENTS
  37,544    3,967   51,702   43,697   97,296  132,943  152,965   32,334   12,312

CHANGES FROM 08/23/11 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:    -24,362)
  -1,881       55  -11,848   -5,210   -8,914  -18,939  -20,706   -5,423   -3,656

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER
    22.7      2.4     31.3     26.4     58.9     80.4     92.6     19.6      7.4

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      186)
      99       29       77       37       48      162      133
at 9/02/2011 03:36:00 PM

2 comments:

  1. Y'know, even I'd call that one interesting

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  2. This includes options and there was a big expiration in Sept. gold and silver calls in the money -- that would likely account for most of the CoT decline as well as gold pulling back at the start of the week going into first notice day, followed by the strong rise into the weekend.

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