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To: NOW who wrote (17235)	8/19/2003 6:43:07 PM
From: The Vet	Respond to of 39344

The futures markets favour the shorts in a number of ways, not the least being position limits in delivery months and the requirement for longs to declare their intention to demand delivery first and have the funds available at that time. It's like a poker game where one group of players have to always show their hands and put their money on the table first while the other group always play with unlimited credit and never has to demonstrate that they can deliver until the longs are already fully exposed, and even then the shorts loss is limited by position limits. So of course the majority of the serious players are always short.. That's where the best odds are.....