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COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - February 13, 2015

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COT Gold, Silver and US Dollar Index Report - February 13, 2015



Posted Saturday, 14 February 2015
Gold COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
199,036
43,762
31,396
120,702
291,293
351,134
366,451
Change from Prior Reporting Period
-29,970
-229
2,722
3,528
-29,154
-23,720
-26,661
Traders
150
70
75
47
53
229
168


Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



42,098
26,781
393,232



-2,572
369
-26,292



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Gold Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Gold COT Report - Futures & Options Combined
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
219,168
46,183
141,781
202,013
391,702
562,961
579,666
Change from Prior Reporting Period
-29,091
1,022
-602
2,204
-30,052
-27,489
-29,632
Traders
174
91
124
55
58
285
218


Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



46,341
29,636
609,302



-2,453
-310
-29,941



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Gold Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Silver COT Report: Futures
Large Speculators
Commercial
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
62,034
15,170
20,438
64,438
117,895
-2,132
1,577
1,491
-625
-3,367
Traders
72
46
45
38
48
Small Speculators
Open Interest
Total
Long
Short
168,146
Long
Short
21,236
14,643
146,910
153,503
926
-41
-340
-1,266
-299
non reportable positions
Positions as of:
130
122

Tuesday, February 10, 2015
 

Silver COT Report: Futures & Options Combined
Large Speculators
Commercial
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
60,481
15,079
42,567
91,008
143,419
-3,463
511
2,431
-911
-3,773
Traders
82
46
65
44
50
Small Speculators
Open Interest
Total
Long
Short
216,549
Long
Short
22,493
15,485
194,057
201,065
858
-255
-1,086
-1,943
-831
non reportable positions
Positions as of:
153
137

Tuesday, February 10, 2015
 

US Dollar Index COT Report - Futures
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
78,694
9,756
3,342
11,662
99,931
93,698
113,029
-9,441
-6,773
1,512
-2,242
-4,573
-10,171
-9,834
Traders
184
14
11
13
8
205
27

Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



21,118
1,787
114,816



-38
-375
-10,209



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Silver Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

US Dollar Index COT Report - Futures & Options Combined
Large Speculators
Commercial
Total
Long
Short
Spreading
Long
Short
Long
Short
78,695
9,916
3,549
11,958
100,202
94,203
113,667
-9,432
-6,790
1,497
-2,263
-4,579
-10,199
-9,872
Traders
186
14
13
15
8
209
29

Small Speculators




Long
Short
Open Interest



21,379
1,914
115,581



-13
-340
-10,212



non reportable positions
Change from the previous reporting period

COT Silver Report - Positions as of
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
  
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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