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COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - March 7, 2014

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COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - March 7, 2014



-- Posted Friday, 7 March 2014
Gold COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
171,404
56,238
26,853
157,838
278,987
356,095
362,078
Change from Prior Reporting Period
1,534
-4,168
4,974
1,869
6,355
8,377
7,161
Traders
123
73
63
48
62
202
171


Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



37,171
31,188
393,266



-2,614
-1,398
5,763



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Gold Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Gold COT Report - Futures & Options Combined
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
193,754
46,415
162,417
258,830
411,868
615,001
620,700
Change from Prior Reporting Period
81
-5,943
11,976
8,460
11,674
20,517
17,707
Traders
144
89
122
55
67
257
224


Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



41,663
35,964
656,664



-1,691
1,119
18,825



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Gold Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

Silver COT Report: Futures
Large Speculators
Commercial
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
44,297
16,388
13,046
54,619
94,388
-551
477
-3,834
-4,606
-3,822
Traders
74
37
37
40
43
Small Speculators
Open Interest
Total
Long
Short
133,550
Long
Short
21,588
9,728
111,962
123,822
-1,764
-3,576
-10,755
-8,991
-7,179
non reportable positions
Positions as of:
126
107

Tuesday, March 04, 2014
  

Silver COT Report: Futures & Options Combined
Large Speculators
Commercial
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
44,035
16,645
31,366
70,990
110,789
-2,032
741
-4,650
-3,315
-4,253
Traders
76
46
57
46
50
Small Speculators
Open Interest
Total
Long
Short
169,357
Long
Short
22,967
10,557
146,390
158,800
-1,821
-3,657
-11,819
-9,997
-8,161
non reportable positions
Positions as of:
144
132

Tuesday, March 04, 2014
  

US Dollar Index COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
34,864
35,345
3,385
5,793
11,436
44,042
50,166
1,943
2,405
1,207
-73
-1,029
3,077
2,583
Traders
86
43
10
12
11
103
60

Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



8,510
2,386
52,552



-336
158
2,741



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Silver Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

US Dollar Index COT Report - Futures & Options Combined
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
34,938
35,695
3,573
6,204
11,583
44,714
50,850
1,939
2,438
1,227
-9
-1,017
3,157
2,648
Traders
90
44
14
12
11
109
63

Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



8,566
2,430
53,280



-338
171
2,819



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Silver Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, March 04, 2014

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].

Large & Small Speculators
The word “speculator” implies that the person is simply making a bet on the way he thinks the price of the item is going to move.   In essence, he is a gambler.   A trader might be this, but then again he might be an Arbitrageur, buying in one market and selling in another to capture the price difference between the two.   He wants to deal as fast as possible so as to minimize his risk of a price movement while he is exposed.   We would not put him in the same category as a speculator.

Contract
One contract is 100 ounces of gold, or 5,000 ounces silver.   The numbers referred to above are therefore the number of contracts in that position.   The net long speculative position is found by adding the large and small speculators bought contracts and deducting the large and small speculators sold contracts.   We work on there being 32,150 ounces in a tonne.

Buy [Long]
A long position is where an investor, trader, speculator buys 100 ounces x the number of contracts.
     
Sell [Short]
A short position is where an investor, trader, speculator sells 100 ounces x the number contracts.

Spreading
For the options-and-futures-combined report, spreading measures the extent to which each non-commercial trader holds equal combined-long and combined-short positions. For example, if a non-commercial trader in Gold futures holds 2,000 long contracts and 1,500 short contracts, 500 contracts will appear in the "Long" category and 1,500 contracts will appear in the "Spreading" category.

Open Interest
Open interest is the total of all futures and/or option contracts entered into and not yet offset by a transaction, by delivery, by exercise, etc. The aggregate of all long open interest is equal to the aggregate of all short open interest.

Reportable Positions
Clearing members, futures commission merchants, and foreign brokers (collectively called "reporting firms") file daily reports with the Commission. Those reports show the futures and option positions of traders that hold positions above specific reporting levels set by CFTC regulations.

Commercial and Non-commercial Traders
When an individual reportable trader is identified to the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the trader is classified either as "commercial" or "non-commercial." All of a trader's reported futures positions in a commodity are classified as commercial if the trader uses futures contracts in that particular commodity for hedging as defined in the Commission's regulations (1.3(z)).

Non-reportable Positions
The long and short open interest shown as "Non-reportable Positions" are derived by subtracting total long and short "Reportable Positions" from the total open interest. Accordingly, for "Non-reportable Positions," the number of traders involved and the commercial/non-commercial classification of each trader are unknown.

Changes in Commitments from Previous Reports
Changes represent the differences between the data for the current report date and the data published in the previous report.

Number of Traders
To determine the total number of reportable traders in a market, a trader is counted only once regardless whether the trader appears in more than one category (non-commercial traders may be long or short only and may be spreading; commercial traders may be long and short). To determine the number of traders in each category, however, a trader is counted in each category in which the trader holds a position. Therefore, the sum of the numbers of traders in each category will often exceed the "Total" number of traders in that market.



 




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