Traders Pile on CAD Short Positions

Latest CFTC Release dated August 31, 2010:

The COT Index is the percentile of the difference between net speculative positioning and net commercial positioning measured over a specific number of weeks (13). A reading close to 0 is bearish if the currency in question has reversed from a uptrend and is bullish if the currency has been declining for a significant amount of time. A reading close to 100 is bullish if the currency in question has reversed from a downtrend and is bearish if the currency has been rallying for a significant amount of time. On the charts below, blue painted bars indicate 100 readings and red painted bars indicate 0 readings.

Readings of 95 and higher as well as 5 and lower are in boldfaced red type to indicate potential market extremes. For example, an increasing index is bullish until the index is extreme (near 100), at which time the risk of a reversal or pause in the trend increases.

US Dollar

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Euro

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British Pound

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Australian Dollar

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New Zealand Dollar

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Japanese Yen

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• Note-this is a chart of the Yen futures contract, not the USDJPY (the inverse of this chart would look similar to the USDJPY).

Canadian Dollar

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• Note-this is a chart of the CAD futures contract, not the USDCAD (the inverse of this chart would look similar to the USDCAD).

Swiss Franc

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• Note-this is a chart of the CHF futures contract, not the USDCHF (the inverse of this chart would look similar to the USDCHF).

Jamie Saettele publishes Daily Technicals every weekday morning, COT analysis (published Monday), technical analysis of currency crosseson Wednesday and Friday (Euro and Yen crosses), and intraday trading strategy as market action dictates at the DailyFX Forum. He is the author of Sentiment in the Forex Market. Follow his intraday market commentary and trades at DailyFX Forex Stream. Send requests to receive his reports via email to jsaettele@dailyfx.com.