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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jamey who wrote (10499)	8/17/2008 8:09:44 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71403

There have been wild rumours only that someone has been trying to corner the silver market, but who would be crazy enough to ever try that again after the Hunt Brothers proved it was a formula for disaster? But this scarcity being spoken of about silver from dealers would lead to "cornering" rumours. But also a factor is that many silver producers at this price now will cause them to cease production. COT numbers for GOLD and Silver in this weekends Barrons. Order is 1)Long 2)change from week before 3)short 4) change Gold Large Speculator 159,313/ - 33,215/ 28,653/ - 147 Commercial Hedger 97,743/ - 900/ 253,556/ - 44,004 Small Trader 47,069/ - 6,179 /21,916/ 3,857 Silver (Comex) Large Speculator 45,941/ - 908 /9,915/ 266 Commercial Hedger 41,559/ 6,342/ 92,209/ 1,531 Small Trader 25,231/ - 1,599 /10,607/ 2,038