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[lvlamb]

As futures positions are paper trades and that each long position must be balanced with a short position, it is my understanding that commercial net short positions balance speculative net long positions. It the case of gold at least.
Hence commercial shorts indicate speculative interest.
Until the speculative position has built an interest at which the speculatrs would cash their chips. And sell, hence net commercial shorts would decrease.
Roughly said.
If I might say.