Comment Text:
I urge you to approve the staff’s proposal on position limits, including limiting exemptions to bona fide hedgers. I would ask you, however, to readjust the proposed formula in silver. The current formula would result in a position limit of over 5,000 contracts for any single speculator, on an all-months-combined basis. 5,000 contracts is the equivalent of 25 million ounces of silver. This is too high of a threshold in
light of the realities of the world silver market.
Please institute a 1500 contract (7.5 million ounce) position limit for silver.
Respectfully submitted,
John D. Shelton
