Harvey Organ: HUGE DERIVATIVES LOSSES COMING From Swiss De-Peg
What a day. Late last night we got word that two brokerage firms are in serious trouble due to these guys being on the wrong side of the Long USA dollar/short Swiss Franc trade. Then today, many more firms stated that they have lost serious money on the trade.
What is interesting on the Swiss unpegging of its currency (the peg was 120 Swiss Franc/1 Euro) was this was done in total secrecy. Christine Lagarde was totally unaware that this was forthcoming.
Generally the bankers know in advance but this time everyone was in total darkness.
Again we are witnessing central banks not trusting one another.
You can bet the farm that there will be huge derivative losses on the Swiss unpegging.
Submitted by Harvey Organ:
Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen:
Here are the following closes for gold and silver today:
Gold: $1276.90 up $12.20 (comex closing time)
Silver: $17.74 up 74 cents (comex closing time)
In the access market 5:15 pm
Gold $1280.50
silver $17.79
Gold/silver trading: see kitco charts on right side of the commentary.
What a day. Late last night we got word that two brokerage firms are in serious trouble due to these guys being on the wrong side of the Long USA dollar/short Swiss Franc trade. Then today, many more firms stated that they have lost serious money on the trade. What is interesting on the Swiss unpegging of its currency (the peg was 120 Swiss Franc/1 Euro) was this was done in total secrecy. Christine Lagarde was totally unaware that this was forthcoming. Generally the bankers know in advance but this time everyone was in total darkness. Again we are witnessing central banks not trusting one another. You can bet the farm that there will be huge derivative losses on the Swiss unpegging.
Late in the day we got word that all 4 major Greek systemic banks have asked for emergency funding (ELA) as depositors bail out of all banks. I cannot see how Greece can remain in the Euro Monetary Area.
The gold comex today had a poor delivery day, registering 0 notices served for nil oz. Silver comex registered 120 notices for 600,000 oz.
Three months ago the comex had 303 tonnes of total gold. Today the total inventory rests at 247.23 tonnes for a loss of 56 tonnes over that period.
In silver, the open interest rose by 77 contracts with yesterday’s silver price being up by 11 cents. The total silver OI continues to remains relatively high with today’s reading at 157,013 contracts. However the bankers are still loathe to supply much of the non backed silver paper. The January silver OI contract rose by 74 contracts up to 200.
In gold we had a gigantic increase in OI with the huge rise in price of gold yesterday to the tune of $30.30. The total comex gold OI rests tonight at 421,911 for a gain of 18,889 contracts. The January gold contract remains constant at 87 contracts.
Today we had a huge addition of gold inventory at the GLD to the tune of 9.56 tonnes/ /Inventory 717.15 tonnes
In silver, we had another huge reduction in silver inventory at the SLV of 1.340 million oz
SLV’s inventory rests tonight at 325.011 million oz
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We have a few important stories to bring to your attention today…
Let’s head immediately to see the major data points for today
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First: GOFO rates:
All rates moved in the negative direction/ All months are in contango and thus positive in rates.
Sometime in January the LBMA will officially stop providing the GOFO rates.
Jan 16 2015
+.10% +1025% +.105% +.1075 .135%
Jan 15 2014:
+.105% +.1075% +.1075 % +.1175% +.1475%
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Let us now head over to the comex and assess trading over there today.
Here are today’s comex results:
The total gold comex open interest rose today by 18,829 contracts from 403,082 all the way up to 421,911 with gold up by $30.30 yesterday (at the comex close). We are now onto the January contract month. The non active January contract month saw it’s OI contracts remain constant at 87 for a loss of 0 contracts. We had 0 contracts served yesterday. Thus we neither lost nor gained any gold contracts standing for delivery in this January contract month. The next big delivery month is February and here the OI rose by 10,762 contracts to 189,258 contracts with few moving to April. The estimated volume today was poor at 121,113. The confirmed volume yesterday was excellent at 323,074 contracts, even though the high frequency traders gave some help with respect to volume. Today we had 0 notices filed for nil oz . The world reacted to the unpegging of the Swiss Franc.
And now for the wild silver comex results. Silver OI rose by 77 contracts from 156,936 up to 157,013 with silver up by 11 cents yesterday. The front January contract month saw its OI rise to 200 contracts for a gain of 74 contracts. We had 0 notices filed yesterday, so we gained 74 silver contracts or an additional 370,000 oz will stand for silver in the January contract month. As I mentioned yesterday, somebody was in great need of physical silver and they seem to be robbing the cookie jar for very valuable silver. The next big contract month is March and here the OI fell by 462 contracts down to 102,432. The estimated volume today was poor at 21,651. The confirmed volume yesterday was excellent at 63,612. We had 0 notices filed for nil oz today. The rise in silver is certainly scaring our bankers from supplying more non backed paper. The OI in silver has seen a slow and steady rise for the past few weeks.
January initial standings
Jan 16.2015
Gold |
Ounces |
Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory in oz | nil oz |
Withdrawals from Customer Inventory in oz | 32.15 oz (Brinks) 1 kilobar |
Deposits to the Dealer Inventory in oz | nil oz |
Deposits to the Customer Inventory, in oz | nil |
No of oz served (contracts) today | 0 contracts(nil oz) |
No of oz to be served (notices) | 87 contracts (8700 oz) |
Total monthly oz gold served (contracts) so far this month | 8 contracts(800 oz) |
Total accumulative withdrawals of gold from the Dealers inventory this month | |
Total accumulative withdrawal of gold from the Customer inventory this month |
2539.9 oz |
Today, we had 0 dealer transactions
total dealer withdrawal: nil oz
we had 0 dealer deposit:
total dealer deposit: nil oz
we had 1 customer withdrawal
i) out of Brinks: 32.15 oz
total customer withdrawal: 32.15 oz
we had 0 customer deposits:
total customer deposits; nil oz
We had 0 adjustments
Today, 0 notices was issued from JPMorgan dealer account and 0 notices were issued from their client or customer account. The total of all issuance by all participants equates to 0 contracts of which 0 notices were stopped (received) by JPMorgan dealer and 0 notices were stopped (received) by JPMorgan customer account.
To calculate the total number of gold ounces standing for the December contract month, we take the total number of notices filed for the month (8) x 100 oz or 800 oz to which we add the difference between the January OI (87) minus the number of notices served upon today (0) x 100 oz = 9500 oz , the amount of gold oz standing for the January contract month. (.2954 tonnes of gold)
Thus the initial standings:
8 (notices filed for the month x 100 oz) +OI for January (87) – 0(no. of notices served upon today) 9500 oz (.2954 tonnes).
We neither lost nor gained any gold ounces standing for delivery today.
Total dealer inventory: 770,487.09 oz or 23.96 tonnes
Total gold inventory (dealer and customer) = 7.948 million oz. (247.23) tonnes)
Several weeks ago we had total gold inventory of 303 tonnes, so during this short time period 56 tonnes have been net transferred out. We will be watching this closely!
This initializes the month of January for gold.
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And now for silver
Jan 16 2015:
January silver: initial standings
Silver |
Ounces |
Withdrawals from Dealers Inventory | nil oz |
Withdrawals from Customer Inventory | 686,095.32 oz (BRINKS,SCOTIA,) oz |
Deposits to the Dealer Inventory | 602,440.600 (CNT) |
Deposits to the Customer Inventory | 600,248.170 oz (Scotia) |
No of oz served (contracts) | 120 contracts (600,000 oz) |
No of oz to be served (notices) | 80 contracts (400,,000 oz) |
Total monthly oz silver served (contracts) | 354 contracts (1,770,000 oz) |
Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Dealers inventory this month | |
Total accumulative withdrawal of silver from the Customer inventory this month | 5,810,595.4 oz |
Today, we had 1 deposit into the dealer account:
i) Into CNT: 602,440.600 oz (one decimal)
total dealer deposit: 602,440.600 oz
we had 0 dealer withdrawal:
total dealer withdrawal: nil oz
We had 1 customer deposit:
i) Into Scotia: 600,278.170 oz
total customer deposit 600,278.17 oz
We had 2 customer withdrawals:
i) Out of Brinks: 635,713.89 oz
ii) Out of Scotia: 50,381.43 oz
total customer withdrawal: 686,095.32 oz
we had 2 adjustments
i) out of CNT: 1,046.09 oz was adjusted out of the customer and this landed into the dealer account of CNT
ii) Out of Delaware: 156,674.700 oz was adjusted out of the customer and this landed into the dealer account of Delaware.
Total dealer inventory: 66.313 million oz
Total of all silver inventory (dealer and customer) 174.430 million oz.
The total number of notices filed today is represented by 120 contracts for 600,000 oz. To calculate the number of silver ounces that will stand for delivery in December, we take the total number of notices filed for the month (354) x 5,000 oz to which we add the difference between the OI for the front month of January (200) – the Number of notices served upon today (120) x 5,000 oz = 2,170,000 oz the number of ounces standing so far for the January delivery month.
Initial standings for silver for the January contract month:
354 contracts x 5000 oz= 1,770,000 oz +OI standing so far in January (200)- no. of notices served upon today(120) x 5,000 oz equals 2,170,000 ounces standing for the January contract month.
we gained 74 contracts or an additional 370,000 oz will stand for the January contract month.
Again somebody was in great need of silver.
The two ETF’s that I follow are the GLD and SLV. You must be very careful in trading these vehicles as these funds do not have any beneficial gold or silver behind them. They probably have only paper claims and when the dust settles, on a collapse, there will be countless class action lawsuits trying to recover your lost investment.
There is now evidence that the GLD and SLV are paper settling on the comex.
***I do not think that the GLD will head to zero as we still have some GLD shareholders who think that gold is the right vehicle to be in even though they do not understand the difference between paper gold and physical gold. I can visualize demand coming to the buyers side:
i) demand from paper gold shareholders
ii) demand from the bankers who then redeem for gold to send this gold onto China
vs no sellers of GLD paper.
And now the Gold inventory at the GLD:
Jan 16.2015 we had a huge addition of 9.56 tonnes of gold into the GLD/New inventory 717.15 tonnes. (where on earth did they obtain that quantity of physical gold??)
Jan 15/ no change in inventory at the GLD today/inventory 707.59 tonnes
Jan 14.2015 we had a small withdrawal of .23 tonnes of gold from the GLD/inventory 707.59 tonnes
Jan 13.2015 no change in gold inventory/GLD inventory tonight at 707.82 tonnes
Jan 12 no change in gold inventory/GLD inventory tonight at 707.82 tonnes
January 9.2015: an addition of 2.99 tonnes of gold/Inventory 707.82 tonnes
Jan 8.2015: no change/inventory 704.83 tonnes
Jan 7.2015: we lost another exact 2.99 tonnes of gold inventory at the GLD/Inventory at 704.83 tonnes
Jan 6.2015: we lost 2.99 tonnes of gold inventory at the GLD//inventory 707.82 tonnes
Today, Jan 16/2015 /a huge addition of 9.56 tonnes of gold inventory at the GLD ) /Inventory rests tonight at 717.15 tonnes
inventory: 717.15 tonnes.
The registered vaults at the GLD will eventually become a crime scene as real physical gold departs for eastern shores leaving behind paper obligations to the remaining shareholders. There is no doubt in my mind that GLD has nowhere near the gold that say they have and this will eventually lead to the default at the LBMA and then onto the comex in a heartbeat (same banks).
GLD : 717.15 tonnes.
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And now for silver (SLV):
Jan 16.2015: we had another withdrawal of 1.34 million oz of silver inventory/Inventory 325.011 million oz
(something is up!!)
Jan 15.2015 we had a huge withdrawal of 1.628 million oz/Inventory 326.391 million oz
Jan 15.2015: no change in silver inventory/327.979 million oz
Jan 13.2015 no change in silver inventory/327.979 million oz/
Jan 12.2015 we had a huge withdrawal of 1.915 million at the SLV/inventory at 327.979 million oz.
Jan 9.2015: we had a huge addition of 1.437 million oz at the SLV/Inventory 329.894 million oz
Jan 8.2015: no change in silver inventory/inventory at 328.457 million oz.
Jan 7.2015: we had another loss of 958,000 oz of silver from the SLV/Inventory 328.457 million oz
jAN 6.2015: we had a small loss of 149,000 oz/inventory 329.415 million oz
Jan 16/2015 / a huge withdrawal of 1.34 million oz of silver from the SLV/ inventory at the SLV
registers: 325.011 million oz
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And now for our premiums to NAV for the funds I follow:
Note: Sprott silver fund now for the first time into the negative to NAV
Sprott and Central Fund of Canada.
(both of these funds have 100% physical metal behind them and unencumbered and I can vouch for that)
BIG CHANGE!!!
1. Central Fund of Canada: traded at Negative 5.6% percent to NAV in usa funds and Negative 5.9 % to NAV for Cdn funds!!!!!!!
Percentage of fund in gold 62.1%
Percentage of fund in silver:37/4%
cash .5%
( Jan 16/2015)
2. Sprott silver fund (PSLV): Premium to NAV falls to + 1.35%!!!!! NAV (Jan 16/2015)
3. Sprott gold fund (PHYS): premium to NAV falls to negative -0.60% to NAV(Jan 16/2015)
Note: Sprott silver trust back into positive territory at +1.35%.
Sprott physical gold trust is back in negative territory at -0.60%
Central fund of Canada’s is still in jail.
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At 3:30 pm we receive the COT which lays out positions of our major players:
First the gold COT:
Gold COT Report – Futures | ||||||
Large Speculators | Commercial | Total | ||||
Long | Short | Spreading | Long | Short | Long | Short |
192,959 | 62,733 | 40,729 | 129,436 | 267,112 | 363,124 | 370,574 |
Change from Prior Reporting Period | ||||||
5,254 | -2,794 | -170 | -991 | 14,013 | 4,093 | 11,049 |
Traders | ||||||
130 | 76 | 73 | 51 | 61 | 214 | 185 |
Small Speculators | ||||||
Long | Short | Open Interest | ||||
38,984 | 31,534 | 402,108 | ||||
3,994 | -2,962 | 8,087 | ||||
non reportable positions | Change from the previous reporting period | |||||
COT Gold Report – Positions as of | Tuesday, January 13, 2015 |
Our large specs:
Those large specs that have been long in gold added a large 5254 contracts to their long side
Those large specs that have been short in gold covered 2794 contracts from their short side.
Our commercials:
Those commercials that have been long in gold pitched 991 contracts from their long side
Those commercials that have been short in gold continued to supply the non backed paper to the tune of 14,013.
Small specs;
Those small specs that have been long in gold added another 3994 contracts to their long side
Those small specs that have been short in gold covered 2962 contracted from their short side.
The commercial side is very heavy on its short side.
And now for silver:
Silver COT Report: Futures | |||||
Large Speculators | Commercial | ||||
Long | Short | Spreading | Long | Short | |
59,808 | 19,869 | 15,845 | 61,363 | 108,167 | |
4,897 | -3,003 | 945 | -1,092 | 6,103 | |
Traders | |||||
74 | 51 | 48 | 40 | 49 | |
Small Speculators | Open Interest | Total | |||
Long | Short | 157,282 | Long | Short | |
20,266 | 13,401 | 137,016 | 143,881 | ||
-347 | 358 | 4,403 | 4,750 | 4,045 | |
non reportable positions | Positions as of: | 135 | 131 | ||
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 | © SilverSeek.c |
Our large specs;
Those large specs that have been long in silver added a rather large 4897 contracts to their long side
Those large specs that have been short in silver covered 3003 contracts from their short side.
Our commercials:
Those commercials that have been long in silver pitched 1092 contracts from their long side.
Those commercials that have been short in silver added a whopping 6103 contracts to their short side.
Our small specs:
Those small specs that have been long in silver pitched a tiny 347 contracts from their long side
Those small specs that have been short in silver added a tiny 358 contracts to their short side.
Conclusion: something has got to give on both gold and silver as the commercials continue to hugely into the negative
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