Saturday, January 7, 2012

Silver Open Interest/ Backwardation Update

Yesterday Zerohedge reported that silver had moved firmly into backwardation with the March contract.  While we would like this to be true, according to the CME's open interest data, that is not currently the case, as the CME daily settlements for 1/6/12 indicates silver is trading in contango from spot through the Sept 2013 contract, and enters backwardation with the Dec 13 contract.  Back end months do remain firmly in backwardation however, with the Dec 16 contract trading at a 0.675 discount to spot.
Open interest continues to slowly rebound from its low last month at 94,999, to 106,471.


Daily Settlements for Silver Futures (FINAL)
Trade Date: 01/06/2012
Month
Open
High
Low
Last
Change
Settle
Estimated
Volume
Prior Day
Open Interest
JAN 12
29.350
29.405
28.675
-
-.612
28.653
77
44
FEB 12
29.255
29.390
28.575
-
-.609
28.666
54
97
MAR 12
29.285
29.460
28.570
-
-.613
28.683
37,094
57,726
MAY 12
29.230
29.480
28.640
-
-.612
28.724
1,384
10,562
JLY 12
29.355
29.485
28.760
-
-.611
28.755
921
4,232
SEP 12
28.780
29.185
28.780
-
-.611
28.776
25
2,677
DEC 12
29.455
29.455
28.790
-
-.611
28.807
626
14,195
JAN 13
-
-
-
-
-.611
28.804
-
9
MAR 13
-
-
-
-
-.610
28.798
-
1,194
MAY 13
-
-
-
-
-.609
28.779
-
1,085
JLY 13
-
-
-
-
-.608
28.756
8
3,211
SEP 13
-
-
-
-
-.608
28.715
-
165
DEC 13
-
-
-
-
-.608
28.652
9
8,170
JLY 14
-
-
-
-
-.605
28.519
-
794
DEC 14
28.600
28.600
28.600
-
-.603
28.450
1
1,451
JLY 15
-
-
-
-
-.598
28.305
-
227
DEC 15
28.550
28.550
28.550
-
-.593
28.210
9
591
JLY 16
-
-
-
-
-.593
28.077
-
38
DEC 16
-
-
-
-
-.593
27.977
-
3
Total
40,208
106,471