It has been a long story telling that the crisis has affected the market, both directly and indirectly. But, look at the post-crisis effects that still has been affecting the markets and the shocks to the traders have continued. There are still many correction measures that are being taken to neutralize the effects of crisis and the effects are still un-anticipated. The stimulus that the Federal Reserve had taken to neutralize the economic misbehaviors has again persuaded that the traders take many short positions and this has made the holdings the least in recent months- not at all good for traders.

According to the various news sources, the net position in gold has come down by 13 percent and this has occurred due to the decreased demand. There can be several reasons- one of them could be that the festive seasons have recently been over and the pockets of the traders have been in the short-hand. This is why the long positions have decreased by 4.9 percent and the short positions have jumped off by almost a 37 percent, very high turnover for the short period of time. Combined holdings across 18 US-traded commodities have seen a drop by 20 percent.

The fall of the gold is not common. Experts believe that the tumble of gold by almost a 23 percent in this year is heading towards the biggest slump in the gold prices since 1981 because the recent trend has been that the traders have started losing faith on the value of the yellow metal. Because of the recent trends and measures in the US economy, the economy has started showing some recovery signs but the unemployment and the traders’ short-fund status are still creating ample problems to keep the traders’ faith down.

This is a big shock and there is no option except waiting for the GOOD!