another nice COT report on gold, 4th week in a row of substantial improvement in ratio of longs to shorts for commercials...
"GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. Code-088691 OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 08/19/08 | --------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS --------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------- Long | Short |Spreads | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | Short -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES) OPEN INTEREST: 508,294 COMMITMENTS 132,214 30,864 140,860 181,458 303,986 454,532 475,709 53,762 32,585
CHANGES FROM 08/12/08 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: 12,513) -16,954 2,522 8,374 23,651 -3,207 15,071 7,689 -2,558 4,824
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADER 26.0 6.1 27.7 35.7 59.8 89.4 93.6 10.6 6.4
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 275) 140 73 80 43 44 224 159 |