The page on COMEX I am looking at still shows 259212. ============================================================== Hi JB, As of yesterday's close, the COMEX gold futures open interest dropped another 5602 contracts to 253,610. We're now down over a 120K contracts from the November highs (370's) and getting within hailing distance of the August 04 lows of 220K. Can a bottom be far away....? <A HREF="http://www.softwarenorth.net/cot/current/charts/GC.png" target="_blank">http://www.softwarenorth.net/cot/current/charts/GC.png</A>