Gold Futures Net Short Commercials

Commercials are always "net short" gold.    They have the product, they want to hedge the downside to lock in a more steady profit.  That is what corporations like...steady profits, rather than big wins and big losses, so they pay for this "profit insurance", i.e. a hedge.

But lately they have gone REALLY net short.   And they are usually right, when gold is "overbought" whatever that means, by whatever measuring stick you are using.

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