• The last time short interest rose by a similar amount marked a bottom in the gold price.
Over the past week we saw one of the largest rises in speculative trader short positioning as the gold price dropped.
We saw a tremendous jump in speculative short positions rise to one of the highest levels of the year.
It is always a better time to buy gold (or any other commodity) when short interest is high and thus investors are mostly gathered on one side of the boat.
Traders seem to be selling a lot of gold contracts short, which may signal a nice buying opportunity as often these large short positions are a good contrarian indicator on where the price of gold is headed in the short term.
Thus we think it is prudent that investors take the contrarian position here and build gold positions by increasing exposure to physical gold