Managed-money accounts in the disaggregated report trimmed their net-long gold futures and options positions to 60, 126 contracts.
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" It remains a futures-led market with hedge players who had formerly gone long on Nikkei futures and shorted the yen now doing the opposite, " said Investrust CEO Hiroyuki Fukunaga.
So we have stock long-short, commodity long-short, managed futures, currency long-short, real estate hedge, and a global bond hedge.
After significantly building up their net-long positions in gold futures and options contracts on Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange in the past three weeks, speculators completely eliminated those recently established long positions in the latest count of speculative activity from Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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Some stock brokers are likely feeling quite queasy as they regard their near and long-term futures.
But, he said, those looking to buy beef should think about getting long the summer futures contract months, rather than the nearby contracts.
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Chart Analysis : The PowerShares DB Dollar Bullish ETF ( UUP) follows the price performance of the Deutsche Bank Long US Dollar Futures Index.
Here's one more weirdness: the absence of a long-term futures market.
In both of the commitments of traders reports for gold, large speculators built up their largest net-long positions for futures and options combined since Oct. 16.
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The index is 76% weighted to a long position in futures contracts on two-year Treasury yields and 24% weighted to a short position in 10-year Treasury yields.
The Powershares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund ( UUP) is designed to track the price and yield performance of the Deutsche Bank long US dollar futures index.
Friday was the last trading day of the week and of the month, which made for some more active trading, including long liquidation of futures contracts, due to position-squaring.
Long-dated futures markets for jet fuel are highly illiquid.
According to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders Reports significantly increased for the second week in a row their net-long positions in futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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Figures from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders reports cut the net-long positions in futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and Nymex for the week ending Aug. 30.
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Figures from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders reports cut the net-long positions in futures and options for gold on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange for the week ending Oct. 18.
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Figures from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed that speculators in both the disaggregated and legacy Commitments of Traders reports additions in the net-long positions in futures and options on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange and Nymex for the week ending Oct. 2.
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Large speculators trimmed their net length in gold futures on long liquidation during the most recent reporting week, late-Friday data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show.
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Managed-money accounts trimmed their net-long position in gold futures and options to 82, 056 contracts.
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News the CME Group again raised its margin requirements for gold also prompted long liquidation in the futures market.
You can get the currency exposure either by purchasing short-term paper issued by the flaky government in question or by taking a long position in the futures market for that currency.
The note, which was created in March 2008, is similar to the iPath DJ-UBS note in that it takes long positions in agricultural futures, tracks the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Food Index and is heavily weighted towards sugar, soybeans and corn.
Latest commitment of traders data from the CFTC does corroborate major speculator long liquidation in many commodity futures markets, especially crude oil.
The move was not a big surprise to the market place, but it did prompt more strong long liquidation pressure in the futures market.
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Investors have piled into platinum, as seen by the rising net-long positions in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission data and record holdings in exchange-traded funds.
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Goldman Sachs seems to view the industry bullishly, reversing its short on U.S. nat gas futures and providing further long-arguments for global nat gas markets.
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They are now net-long 47, 164 contracts for futures and options combined.
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Speculators in the New York futures market remains net long in gold and silver, even though they have pared that net length from earlier in the year.
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Meanwhile, he pointed out, readings such as Market Vane bullish consensus and net-long positioning data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have been at their lowest levels in several years.
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The number of open positions in the futures market had surged as many traders went long, or bought on the hope of higher prices, said Kevin Grady, president of Phoenix Futures and Options on the Comex floor.
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