If anyone's wondering why gold went into the crapper around mid-week.... wonder no more!
GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. REPORTABLE POSITIONS AS OF 08/21/01 | -------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS --------------------------|----------------|-----------------|---------------- LONG | SHORT |SPREADING| LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES) OPEN INTEREST: 131,631 COMMITMENTS 57,049 17,515 11,279 28,387 92,799 96,715 121,593 34,916 10,038
CHANGES FROM 08/14/01 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: 12,320) 6,614 -51 1,161 1,652 10,837 9,427 11,947 2,893 373
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 43.3 13.3 8.6 21.6 70.5 73.5 92.4 26.5 7.6
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 133) 62 27 25 28 34 106 74
Short interest in gold by commercials very near 5 year high! |