Scout

Here is the latest from CFTC as ov last Tuesday. Today willl be reported on Friday at

http://www.cftc.gov/dea/futures/deacmxsf.htm

The actual internals are by subscription and are spread over all strike prices showing net open interest. I can get it for gold, but not silver. If you're interested I can email you a gif of a typical Nov/Dec snapshot. You would need that kind of data to see the OE at time of today's close. It would tell you those that finished inthe $ and those that expired worthless across all strike prices. Problem is that there are puts and calls summed in the net figures so there could be lots of puts in the money at prices where calls outnumbered puts and vice versa. MAybe someone else has that data and could let us know where it is available in public forum.

SILVER - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                     Code-084691
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 10/20/09                         |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  LONG  | SHORT  |SPREADS |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 5,000 TROY OUNCES)                     OPEN INTEREST:      135,456
COMMITMENTS
  55,740    7,602   22,677   28,261   94,265  106,678  124,544   28,778   10,912

CHANGES FROM 10/13/09 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:       -559)
     208      345     -549      359      937       18      733     -577   -1,292

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
    41.1      5.6     16.7     20.9     69.6     78.8     91.9     21.2      8.1

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      177)
      83       40       37       33       33      144       86
 
 
COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                            Code-085692
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 10/20/09                         |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  LONG  | SHORT  |SPREADS |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 25,000 POUNDS)                         OPEN INTEREST:      133,100
COMMITMENTS
  32,948   31,263   14,400   69,666   73,566  117,014  119,229   16,086   13,871

CHANGES FROM 10/13/09 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:     11,436)
   7,591    4,077      406    1,675    6,064    9,672   10,547    1,764      889

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
    24.8     23.5     10.8     52.3     55.3     87.9     89.6     12.1     10.4

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      181)
      61       57       40       40       41      130      119
 
 
GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC.                                       Code-088691
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 10/20/09                         |
--------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE
      NON-COMMERCIAL      |   COMMERCIAL    |      TOTAL      |   POSITIONS
--------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------
  LONG  | SHORT  |SPREADS |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT  |  LONG  | SHORT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(CONTRACTS OF 100 TROY OUNCES)                       OPEN INTEREST:      509,678
COMMITMENTS
 286,864   36,757   61,348   86,225  383,718  434,437  481,823   75,241   27,855

CHANGES FROM 10/13/09 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST:      5,491)
  -1,350    2,498    7,086      154    1,721    5,890   11,305     -399   -5,814

PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
    56.3      7.2     12.0     16.9     75.3     85.2     94.5     14.8      5.5

NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS:      360)
     222       68       58       37       52      286      156