Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[basserdan]

*** Gold related post (CoTs) ***

Hi Ken,
The Commercial net short position dropped another 9,915 contracts to total 150,416

I'm pleased to say that your guesstimate total of 149,753 placed you into the top 25.......

 
 GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691 
 FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 11/08/05                         | 
 --------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE 
       NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS 
 --------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------- 
   LONG  | SHORT  |SPREADS |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 (CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      317,076 
 COMMITMENTS 
  167,250   44,139   30,469   67,808  218,224  265,527  292,832   51,549   24,244 
  
 CHANGES FROM 11/01/05 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:    -17,394) 
  -13,304   -5,847      438   -1,721  -11,636  -14,587  -17,045   -2,807     -349 
  
 PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 
     52.7     13.9      9.6     21.4     68.8     83.7     92.4     16.3      7.6 
  
 NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      246) 
      131       56       34       36       43      183      122