COT Gold, Silver Report - October 11, 2011

COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - October 14, 2011
Posted Friday, 14 October 2011

Gold COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators			Commercial		Total
Long	Short	Spreading	Long	Short	Long	Short
179,125	44,623	22,377	179,749	348,227	381,251	415,227
Change from Prior Reporting Period
-1,510	-2,856	258	-540	3,187	-1,792	589
Traders
171	69	74	50	44	253	161
	Small Speculators
	Long	Short	Open Interest
	56,839	22,863	438,090
	2,962	581	1,170
	non reportable positions		Change from the previous reporting period
COT Gold Report - Positions as of				Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Silver COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators			Commercial		Total
Long	Short	Spreading	Long	Short	Long	Short
23,571	11,623	18,828	37,590	58,418	79,989	88,869
-288	-336	48	-1,994	-89	-2,234	-377
Traders
58	40	44	38	43	123	106
	Small Speculators
	Long	Short	Open Interest
	19,709	10,829	99,698
	830	-1,027	-1,404
	non reportable positions		Change from the previous reporting period
COT Silver Report - Positions as of				Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The COT reports which we look at each week provide a breakdown of each Tuesday's open interest for markets in which 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the CFTC. The weekly reports for Futures-and-Options-Combined Commitments of Traders are released every Friday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time. The short report shows open interest separately by reportable and Non-reportable positions. For reportable positions, additional data is provided for commercial and non-commercial holdings, spreading, changes from the previous report.

Futures and Options Combined

What does this title mean? A future is a standardized contract traded through regulated exchanges where an investor buys or sells a contract at a specified price for a specific date in the future. The price includes the interest charge due to the seller by the buyer from the date of the contract to the due date. An option is the ‘right to buy or sell’ a contract at a fixed date in the future at a specific [strike] price. The difference is that a futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell, whereas an option gives the holder the right to buy or sell. An option holder can decide not to take up that right and will only lose the cost of buying the option. His loss is therefore definable at the start of his investment, while the potential profit has not limit to it. A futures contract is usually leveraged [a loan provided] up to 90% of the contract. However, with the owner liable to top up his ‘margin’ to maintain this 10% his potential losses can rise far higher than his investment. A ‘long’ [buying] contract limits its loss to the full price of the item, whereas the ‘short’ [selling] contract has no limit except the height that the price of the item can rise to.

The Commitment of Traders report [COT] is therefore a report on the overall position of the Commodity Exchange [COMEX or NYMEX].......

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