Silver Non-Commercial Positions:
Large speculators and traders continued to increase their bullish net positions in the silver futures markets last week for a sixth consecutive week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
The non-commercial futures contracts of Comex silver futures, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of 78,277 contracts in the data reported through February 7th. This was a weekly increase of 2,303 contracts from the previous week which had a total of 75,974 net contracts.
Silver speculators have now pushed their bullish totals to the highest level since September 27th when net positions equaled +84,862 contracts.
Silver Commercial Positions:
Free Reports:
The commercial traders position, categorized by the CFTC as hedgers or traders engaged in buying and selling for business purposes, totaled a net position of -92,712 contracts last week. This is a weekly decline of -3,299 contracts from the total net of -89,413 contracts reported the previous week.
Over the same weekly reporting time-frame, from Tuesday to Tuesday, the SLV ishares ETF, which tracks the price of silver, closed at approximately $16.79 which was a gain of $0.16 from the previous close of $16.63, according to ETF financial market data.
*COT Report: The weekly commitment of traders report summarizes the total trader positions for open contracts in the futures trading markets. The CFTC categorizes trader positions according to commercial hedgers (traders who use futures contracts for hedging as part of the business), non-commercials (large traders who speculate to realize trading profits) and nonreportable traders (usually small traders/speculators). Find CFTC criteria here: (http://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/ExplanatoryNotes/index.htm).
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