Gold and Silver Disaggregated COT Report (DCOT) for October 26

NEW ORLEANS -- This week’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) disaggregated commitments of traders (DCOT) report was released at 15:30 ET Friday.  Our recap of the changes in weekly positioning by the disaggregated trader classes, as compiled by the CFTC, is just below.

(DCOT Table for Friday, October 26, 2012, for data as of the close on Tuesday, October 23.   Source CFTC for COT data, Cash Market for gold and silver.) 

In the DCOT table above a net short position shows as a negative figure in red. A net long position shows in black. In the Change column, a negative number indicates either an increase to an existing net short position or a reduction of a net long position. A black figure in the Change column indicates an increase to an existing long position or a reduction of an existing net short position. The way to think of it is that black figures in the Change column are traders getting “longer” and red figures are traders getting less long or shorter.

All of the trader’s positions are calculated net of spreading contracts as of the Tuesday disaggregated COT report.

Vultures, (Got Gold Report Subscribers) please note that updates to our linked technical charts, including our comments about the COT reports and the week’s technical changes, should be completed by sometime on Monday, October 29 – almost certainly by 18:00 ET.