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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (6703)	3/20/2001 3:57:07 PM
From: Brister	Respond to of 7434

damn, at least they didn't get all of my money

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (6703)	3/20/2001 4:30:01 PM
From: peter n matzke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7434

Pat, where are you getting the OI from? How accurate do you think the numbers are?

To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (6703)	3/20/2001 4:48:49 PM
From: peter n matzke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7434

CME S & P 500: Settlement Prices as of 03/19/01 07:00 PM (CST) MTH/ ---- DAILY ---- PT EST ---- PRIOR DAY ---- STRIKE OPEN HIGH LOW LAST SETT CHGE VOL SETT VOL INT JUN01 1164.00 1185.50 1157.80 1180.00 1180.50 +1870 80K 1161.80 95684 464007 SEP01 1171.50 1193.00B 1170.00A 1192.50B 1192.00 +1900 98 1173.00 6637 9191 DEC01 1184.50 1203.50B 1181.00A 1203.00B 1202.70 +1920 53 1183.50 72 1046 MAR02 ---- 1213.50B 1191.00A 1213.00B 1212.70 +1920 20 1193.50 10 407 JUN02 1208.50 1225.50B 1199.50A 1225.00B 1224.70 +1920 44 1205.50 16 458 SEP02 ---- 1237.50B 1211.50A 1237.00B 1236.70 +1920 1217.50 3 DEC02 ---- 1249.50B 1223.50A 1249.00B 1248.70 +1920 1229.50 74 MAR03 ---- 1261.50B 1235.50A 1261.00B 1260.70 +1920 1241.50 TOTAL EST.VOL VOL OPEN INT. TOTAL 80826 102419 475186 CME stats show 475186 OI But it seems to me that the figure really represents zero, since for every buyer there must be a seller, correct!? so the 475186 represents the offset from buys to sells but is it a real figure?, what i'm illuding to here is that the number may not be representing much of anything?! Hedges, ofsets, synthetics, etc...but what remains after all are offset!?