Not exact matches
Since the failure of MF Global in 2011,
COMEX gold
open interest dropped from a peak of 650,000 contracts to a range of 370,000 to 450,000.
NYMEX crude oil is the largest oil futures contract in the world and has a current total
open interest of around 1.6 million contracts and it would be impossible for any group of speculators to sell or buy 53 days of world production in a year or longer, no less in a week as just occurred in
COMEX silver.
For example, a 26th January ZeroHedge article includes the following chart and implies that the high (542:1) ratio of
open interest to «registered» gold could soon result in a
COMEX default.