To: yard_man who wrote (166517 ) 5/17/2002 3:52:43 PM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Respond to of 436258 USD is by middle of next week, it kind of plays out nicely for a rally in the USD in June. To date for 5 weeks in a row speculators are right JAPANESE YEN - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE REPORTABLE POSITIONS AS OF 05/14/02 | -------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS --------------------------|----------------|-----------------|---------------- LONG | SHORT |SPREADING| LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (CONTRACTS OF 12,500,000 JAPANESE YEN) OPEN INTEREST: 83,322 COMMITMENTS 14,583 11,769 297 52,229 51,578 67,109 63,644 16,213 19,678 CHANGES FROM 05/07/02 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -709) -2,289 1,411 32 4,222 -4,589 1,965 -3,146 -2,674 2,437 PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 17.5 14.1 0.4 62.7 61.9 80.5 76.4 19.5 23.6 NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 59) 10 14 6 24 22 39 37 EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE REPORTABLE POSITIONS AS OF 05/14/02 | -------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS --------------------------|----------------|-----------------|---------------- LONG | SHORT |SPREADING| LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (CONTRACTS OF 125,000 EUROS) OPEN INTEREST: 132,612 COMMITMENTS 42,844 8,244 1,390 37,941 110,842 82,175 120,476 50,437 12,136 CHANGES FROM 05/07/02 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -2,691) -964 -131 294 -2,015 -4,191 -2,685 -4,028 -6 1,337 PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 32.3 6.2 1.0 28.6 83.6 62.0 90.8 38.0 9.2 NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 83) 41 5 2 22 23 63 30