Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

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

Hi Ken,
Surprisingly, with the COMEX Gold total open interest rising by 7643 contracts, the commercial net short position only rose by 3,863. This seems like a fairly friendly number and could lend some support the PM shares going into today's close.

Next week's rise will prolly be a shocker based on the OI gain of the first two days of the new reporting period.

 
 GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691 
 FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 11/15/05                         | 
 --------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE 
       NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS 
 --------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------- 
   LONG  | SHORT  |SPREADS |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
 (CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      324,719 
 COMMITMENTS 
  177,421   47,735   28,940   67,453  221,732  273,814  298,407   50,905   26,312 
  
 CHANGES FROM 11/08/05 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:      7,643) 
   10,171    3,596   -1,529     -355    3,508    8,287    5,575     -644    2,068 
  
 PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 
     54.6     14.7      8.9     20.8     68.3     84.3     91.9     15.7      8.1 
  
 NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      258) 
      138       58       34       35       44      192      124