CoT Highlights:
- US dollar positioning remains extended
- Large spec profiles for other major currencies and markets
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The latest CoT report released on Friday didn’t show any overwhelming one-week shifts, with the largest group of speculators adding some USD bullish exposure in some contracts and making small reductions in others. The streak continues in the US Dollar Index (DXY), where large specs added to their net-long for a 19th consecutive week. Gold traders covered a few contracts, but remain short for the first time since 2002.
Every Friday the CFTC releases a detailed report of traders’ positioning in the futures market as reported for the week ending on Tuesday. Outlined in the table below are key stats concerning the positioning of large speculators (i.e. hedge funds, CTAs, etc.). This group of traders largely employ trend-following strategies, and as such, their net long exposure typically increases in uptrends while net short positioning increases in downtrends. When analyzing the data, we take into consideration the direction of their position, magnitude of changes, as well as extremes.
Key stats: Net position, one-week change, and where the current position stands relative to the past 52 weeks.
US dollar positioning remains extended
It’s more of the same, with large specs adding yet again to their long position in DXY to make it a 19th week in a row of doing such. An impressive streak, one not even seen during the persistent rise of 2014/15. The trend continues to be pointed higher, but it would appears at some point there will be a set-back large enough to at least shake the tree. Just as of last week the DXY was at a level seen nearly three months ago, highlighting a relatively sluggish trend. It may not take much to get traders hitting bids given their increasingly large long position, collectively, hasn't bared much fruit over the past three months.
US Dollar Index (DXY) Positioning Chart
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Large speculator profiles for major FX & markets:
Euro
British Pound
Japanese Yen
Canadian Dollar
Swiss Franc
Australian Dollar
New Zealand Dollar
Gold
Silver
Copper
Crude Oil
S&P 500 (E-mini)
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---Written by Paul Robinson, Market Analyst
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