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To: mishedlo who wrote (65756)	2/8/2003 6:18:04 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 209892

Wondering... For every long contract there must be a short. Commercials often enough are the ones who keep the markets going… if I want to short, they’ll buy it from me, and if I am long – they are the people from whom I’m buying. It would appear that traders are driving the market, and the "market makers" are mostly "accommodating" them. If this is the case, than the commercials tend to be right NOT because they are smart money, but merely because they are forced to take the other side of the trades from money which is NOT smart – especially, when there is a consensus. When commercials get less short it means that traders are getting less long, right? Can be, but I think not necessarily a bullish thing, unless it is an extreme. One more thing – on this chart, it appears that over time the total open interest has been declining. What can be made of that? Specs going broke or losing interest? softwarenorth.net