In the first six months of this year net buying by Asian investors totalled JPY 970 billion.
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Of course, one short term result of the strong net buying has been to put appreciation pressure on the yen.
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They further dissect the tick data to detect foot prints of smart money and calculate net buying or selling by smart money.
For instance, for the first time since the market peak on April 15, UBS says it has seen more net buying of cyclical stocks than defensive names.
In the two weeks after November 11, when dissolution of the Diet and new general elections became the new Japan story, foreign net buying totaled JPY 400 billion (USD 4.9 billion).
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Speculators in the legacy report boosted their net short position by buying up more gross shorts than longs, hiking their net-short position to 3, 376 contracts.
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Speculators in the legacy report boosted their net long position by buying up more gross longs than shorts, hiking their net-long position to 3, 518 contracts.
By contrast, with a traditional index mutual fund, "you're always buying at the net asset value, " Mr. Goldie notes.
Fresh buying boosted the net length for both of the platinum group metals in the week to May 3, as the number of gross longs rose.
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The non-commercials in the legacy report hiked their net length to 9, 675, with the bulk of the increase fresh buying (total longs rose 1, 712), compared to a net long of 6, 929 in the prior week.
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Since individuals, mutual funds, pension funds and hedge funds have all been net sellers of US stocks recently, company buying is the only reason stocks are not lots lower in.
Barclays said the rise in net-long positions came on the back of fresh buying and short covering.
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Managed-money accounts significantly increased their net long position in gold on a combination of new buying and short covering.
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Yet some market watchers noted while net longs increased in gold, the amount of new buying is beginning to slow.
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Similar gains have been posted by other net stocks, giving the CEOs of these companies enormous buying power to chase other up-and-coming hotshots.
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Managed-money accounts increased their gold net-long position to 198, 194 contracts in the disaggregated report, as new buying overwhelmed new short positions.
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Conversely, when net-long positioning hits historic highs, this often is viewed as a sign that the most potential buying already may have occurred.
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As of Feb. 14, money managers in the disaggregated report increased their net length to 14, 817 lots from 12, 298 the prior week, mainly due to fresh buying as reflected by the 1, 812 build in total longs.
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Analyst at Barclays Capital said that the net length for funds in the legacy report is at an 8-week high, but they said physical buying has slowed, which could be an issue.
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Indeed, foreign fund managers who were supposed to be buying Malaysian stocks in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the MSCI reinstatement have been big net sellers of Malaysian equities.
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