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Strategies & Market Trends : MARKET INDEX TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - MITA -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J.T. who wrote (6238)	1/22/2001 8:55:55 PM
From: J.T.	Respond to of 19219

Smart money commercials are now at a net long 59,488 gold options contracts while the wrong money large speculators (non-commercial) are net short 57,160 contracts. BULLISH Expect good follow thru higher tomorrow in gold and XAU... ...<Noncommercial traders have increased their short positions, he said, citing a Commodity Futures Trading Commission report released Friday. A short position occurs when a trader has sold futures contracts but has yet to offset the sale. The number of short positions in the market is the biggest since September 1999, Williams said, so the report provided an "important piece of news" and "made some of investors who are short nervous.">... GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. REPORTABLE POSITIONS AS OF 01/16/01 \| -------------------------------------------------------------\| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL \| COMMERCIAL \| TOTAL \| POSITIONS --------------------------\|----------------\|-----------------\|---------------- LONG \| SHORT \|SPREADING\| LONG \| SHORT \| LONG \| SHORT \| LONG \| SHORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES) OPEN INTEREST: 139,180 COMMITMENTS 13,743 70,903 9,195 96,907 37,419 119,845 117,517 19,335 21,663 CHANGES FROM 01/09/01 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: 12,653) -2,035 16,899 -1,153 15,765 -5,222 12,577 10,524 76 2,129 PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 9.9 50.9 6.6 69.6 26.9 86.1 84.4 13.9 15.6 NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 145) 36 67 24 31 30 82 110 Best Regards, J.T.