More gold long spec liquidation:
GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 05/24/05 | --------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS --------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------- LONG | SHORT |SPREADS | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES) OPEN INTEREST: 272,748 COMMITMENTS 114,965 75,456 19,646 91,915 152,378 226,526 247,480 46,222 25,268
CHANGES FROM 05/17/05 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -1,634) -9,604 6,831 -1,081 10,552 -8,846 -133 -3,096 -1,501 1,462
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 42.2 27.7 7.2 33.7 55.9 83.1 90.7 16.9 9.3
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 228) 106 66 36 42 40 167 127
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