Hi,

Starting to look like someone has figured out how to use Silver as a "catalyst" to turn Coffee beans into Cocoa !!!

Hope SIH11 stays under 28 at least till the dust settles this week.

Here's another trial balloon on boiling down the futures options data to see if it posts in an understandable form.

Looked at the expiring Feb. Sih11 options. I can't imagine that there is enough there [not much OI] for them to fiddle with the SIH11 contract.

BUTTTTT SIH11 is at 27.87 and not much movement now after the 0.3 move up earlier tonight.

For FUN, I will suggest that SIH11 will stay about where it is through expiration in 3 days.

If it rises to 28 then 414 calls go ITM and only 359 puts go out. If it drops to 27.5 or 27 MANY more puts go ITM and relatively few calls.

So, Trades, a good test. If SIH11 stays above 27.5 and below 28 the "most damage" will be done at expiration from what I see.

Below is the March data.

Str_____Ticks___Val_$___OI______Str_____Str_____Ticks___Val_$___OI______
11C_____16.427__82135___0_______11______11P_____0.001___5_______320_____
12C_____15.427__77135___0_______12______12P_____0.001___5_______240_____
13C_____14.427__72135___0_______13______13P_____0.001___5_______2084____
14C_____13.428__67140___190_____14______14P_____0.002___10______1262____
15C_____12.43___62150___2_______15______15P_____0.004___20______5739____
16C_____11.432__57160___14______16______16P_____0.007___35______1160____
17C_____10.436__52180___122_____17______17P_____0.011___55______1257____
18C_____9.442___47210___439_____18______18P_____0.016___80______1017____
19C_____8.445___42225___453_____19______19P_____0.019___95______2686____
20C_____7.446___37230___755_____20______20P_____0.021___105_____5460____
21C_____6.457___32285___1302____21______21P_____0.031___155_____3266____
22C_____5.474___27370___999_____22______22P_____0.048___240_____1722____
23C_____4.519___22595___927_____23______23P_____0.093___465_____1873____
24C_____3.6_____18000___724_____24______24P_____0.174___870_____2429____
25C_____2.74____13700___1224____25______25P_____0.314___1570____3157____
26C_____1.976___9880____1104____26______26P_____0.549___2745____656_____
27C_____1.338___6690____678_____27______27P_____0.911___4555____454_____
28C_____0.858___4290____1340____28______28P_____1.431___7155____825_____
29C_____0.523___2615____773_____29______29P_____2.096___10480___418_____
30C_____0.302___1510____2441____30______30P_____2.874___14370___694_____
31C_____0.179___895_____606_____31______31P_____3.752___18760___114_____
32C_____0.106___530_____1121____32______32P_____4.678___23390___29______
33C_____0.066___330_____746_____33______33P_____5.638___28190___0_______
34C_____0.042___210_____965_____34______34P_____6.614___33070___3_______
35C_____0.027___135_____4120____35______35P_____7.599___37995___0_______
36C_____0.018___90______95______36______36P_____8.59____42950___0_______
37C_____0.014___70______269_____37______37P_____9.586___47930___0_______
38C_____0.013___65______110_____38______38P_____10.584__52920___0_______
39C_____0.012___60______127_____39______39P_____11.583__57915___0_______
40C_____0.011___55______2222____40______40P_____12.582__62910___0_______
41C_____0.01____50______34______41______41P_____13.581__67905___0_______
42C_____0.008___40______89______42______42P_____14.579__72895___0_______
43C_____0.007___35______54______43______43P_____15.578__77890___0_______
44C_____0.006___30______4_______44______44P_____16.577__82885___0_______
45C_____0.006___30______431_____45______45P_____17.577__87885___0_______
50C_____0.004___20______1233____50______50P_____22.575__112875__0_______
55C_____0.002___10______573_____55______55P_____27.574__137870__0_______

Well, I guess that's better.
For anyone interested, the problem posting a table with clear columns has a few "parts".

The CGI code used by the TFC bulletin board converts the text you type/enter into standard HTML for display AND uses "variable width fonts" to boot.

Also, you cannot use standard HTML to format anything. That is why your post will "blow up" if you use the "less than or greater than symbol [some think of it as left, right arrow]. These symbols bracket the HTML tags and their use will result in you losing your message/typing !!

Further, many/most spreadsheets use "tabs" for delimiters. The CGI software does not "include the tab" but converts it to the proper number of spaces. Then when displayed by your browser, all extra spaces are "dutifully removed" as that is the way HTML was designed.

So, as annoying as it is, it seems the best way is to convert all tabs to spaces and then substitute the "under score" character for the spaces. Reason, the underscore displays at the full width of the widest character of the font being displayed and doesn't screw up the column alignment. If you use a dot(period) "looks better to me" but it is smaller and screws up the column alignment.

OK, long story, but may help some folks trying to display data in a table form.

Lee