Yesterday I wrote about the surge in net new GOLD contracts for the January contract and the HUGE trading volume yesterday. Nearly all, 99%, of yesterday's volume of 1,547 contracts resulted in 1,532 new contracts. That means almost no existing longs closed by buying a short, and no existing shorts closed by buying a long. It was all new players. That was about $280 million of transactions to buy gold during an inactive month.
Below is my updated plot of net new contracts. Lotta buzz buying metal this week:
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The OI on this contract at the close last Friday was only 36. Since then 3,060 contracts were opened through Wednesday. Today everyone took a break and the volume was only 38. BofA bought nearly all the metal on today's issue and stops report. HSBC's house account was the big seller:
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After those delivery notices clear, the OI will be only roughly 60. I like when it is nearly zero'd out so I can determine who and when participants are transacting in the days ahead.
I know you're disappointed there are no pictures of Trump expressing "huge" today. BofA took a day off it's buying binge in both gold and silver.
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At SLV, the Authorized Participants redeemed 18 "baskets" of 50,000 shares and that'll remove 830,000 oz from their ledger. Notice how their share count continues to drift lower regardless of rising silver prices and an increased interest in silver. It would be natural to think that when prices rally investor interest would pick up and new shares would be issued. But you'd be WRONG.
SLV only exists for 14 bullion banks to trade against the public, and stick a silver pacifier in the public's mouth so they think they own silver. SLV's ledger is down 20 million oz in the last month. I wrote about that a few days ago and posted a chart of the ledger. Shame on you if you're not reading daily.
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At comex's vaults ... FYI they aren't run by comex, but by private parties ... JP Morgan's vault moved another truckload into the vault but a 1/2 truckload simultaneously moved out. I suspect the JPM bank moved the truckload in and a customer moved 1/2 out, but I don't know that.
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This was sparked by the recent post by u/Ancient_Ice where someone was using a production system to learn Unix.
A friend of mine, hereafter called F, used to study in a smallish (under 500 students) business and technology institute in the mid-90s. There was one Sun box for the student emails, shells etc., running an ever less current version of SunOS 4.something. There was a nominal admin, but he was rather busy, so the box was rather sloppily maintained by random persons who were given the root password and minimal instruction.
For example, F's roommate had root on the box at one time. He used his power and might to try out some old Unix jokes in csh. (Oh yes, the old Sun boxes offered a choice of shells: you could have csh or tcsh. Or s-shell, in this case; we'll get to this later.)
The depth of the problems started to become apparent in the early 2000s when F tried to access his email from my home and got a Connection refused message. I had a fancy Internet connection for the time - a fast DSL connection with a static IP and my own domain. I had my own firewall, so I could tell what was being blocked and what wasn't.
F then tried opening an SSH connection to another shell server in a different domain, and telnetting from there. That was a success.
Now, most of you are probably wondering about the telnet part. F had been asking for ssh to be installed on the Sun box, to no avail. After years of begging someone finally managed to install something called s-shell - I still have no idea what it is. If someone does, please enlighten us! (edit: there are a couple of 2010s or 2020s projects with the name of "S shell" - those are different, this is late 90s to about 2002.)
Side note: many, including my employer at the time, were initially cautious about adopting SSH because of its license terms. In my employer's case it took a direct quote from Tatu YlΓΆnen, confirming that it was absolutely OK to use internally, and only integrating SSH in a commercial product would be an issue.
Once F had gained access to his shell account, we started investigating. A lot of the system was world readable, including home directories. However, we headed over to /etc to see what was going on.
Reading through hosts.deny, it looked like somebody had run a random number generator and put the output in the file. There was also, among others, the entire TLD where I had my own domain - hence the Connection refused error. (hosts.allow was either blank or
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She is 42yrs and we were separated for two year.before the separation,she hardly stay in control and she gets tired easily.she also get satisfied easily and contented.but now after reconciliation, nothing satisfied her.she always seek for more.... Onetime,she mentioned about slim and energy.am fearful because at forty two years and children,sex and slim and energy, should not be the utmost desire of a woman.
Said a high profile agent told him this last night. Yikes.
