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Commitment of Traders Report Silver Vs ETFS Physical Silver Shares

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Commitment of Traders Report Silver Vs ETFS Physical Silver Shares Chart I thought it might be interesting to impose the chart of the COT Silver Chart against a relevant instrument. We will take the ETFS Physical Silver Shares (SIVR) as the example. Do you see any correlation? It isn't that obvious isn't it? For those not familiar with ETFs, it is an access for those interested in trading or investing in Silver. The ETF try to mimic the movement of Silver prices. How exactly they do it, I am not really sure. There have been some problems with some ETFs. In some cases, the prices do not correlate with the underlying real instrument themselves / industries themselves.

Commitment of Traders Report COT CFTC - Silver - Commodity Exchange Inc - 20 December 2011

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Commitment of Traders Report COT CFTC - Silver - Commodity Exchange Inc - 20 December 2011 Silver has been in an uptrend for quite sometime now. However we can see that the number of commercials net short is decreasing since the middle of this year and the prices have been falling ever since. They are leaning towards being net long. The 50% line is something we need to look out for. If that happens silver prices will fall further and it looks like the downward momentum is gaining steam.

Silver - Commodity Exchange Inc - Commitments of Traders Report CFTC

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Silver - Commodity Exchange - Commitments of Traders Report CFTC From the COT chart we can expect silver prices to go up again after the correction made in May 2011. The larger traders or specialists are loading up again on silver.

Silver - Commitments of Traders Chart

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Want to know where silver is heading? Silver - Commitments of Traders Chart The speculators have been long since 1999! For gold, you have the Gold ETF to trade. If you want to look into investing/trade into silver, you can also look into silver proxies such as silver miners/producers, etc.