Leveraged Funds still near a three-year high in CME Bitcoin Futures
The CFTC Commitments of Traders report for 27 October: the three biggest weekly changes and the positions near three-year extremes.
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The CFTC’s Commitments of Traders report for positions on Tuesday 27 October covers the eight futures markets we follow. Group names are the CFTC’s own: Asset Manager/Institutional and Leveraged Funds in the financial futures report, Managed Money and Producer/Merchant/Processor/User in the commodity report.
Biggest weekly changes
Ranked by the change as a share of open interest:
- Leveraged Funds in CME Bitcoin Futures cut their net short, a change of 963 contracts to −3,979 in the week to 27 October.
- Asset Manager/Institutional in CME E-Mini Nasdaq-100 cut their net long, a change of 12,409 contracts to +65,381 in the week to 27 October.
- Asset Manager/Institutional in CME E-Mini Russell 2000 cut their net long, a change of 11,358 contracts to +19,602 in the week to 27 October.
Near three-year extremes
Net positions in the top or bottom tenth of the past 157 weekly reports, as of 27 October. A percentile near the top means close to the most long (or least short) of that period:
- Leveraged Funds in CME E-Mini Nasdaq-100: +2,301 contracts on 27 October, percentile 95.
- Producer/Merchant/Processor/User in COMEX Gold: −9,574 contracts on 27 October, percentile 99.
- Producer/Merchant/Processor/User in NYMEX WTI Crude Oil: +366,392 contracts on 27 October, percentile 96.
- Asset Manager/Institutional in CME Euro FX: +173,249 contracts on 27 October, percentile 8.
- Leveraged Funds in CME Euro FX: −71,574 contracts on 27 October, percentile 1.
- Asset Manager/Institutional in CME Bitcoin Futures: +2,754 contracts on 27 October, percentile 6.
- Leveraged Funds in CME Bitcoin Futures: −3,979 contracts on 27 October, percentile 100.
All markets we follow
Net contracts held on 27 October, with the change on the week:
- CME E-Mini Nasdaq-100, Tue 27 Oct: Asset Manager/Institutional +65,381 (−12,409); Leveraged Funds +2,301 (+1,351).
- CME E-Mini S&P 500, Tue 27 Oct: Asset Manager/Institutional +923,449 (+22,072); Leveraged Funds −400,604 (−29,359).
- CBOT DJIA x $5 Mini Dow, Tue 27 Oct: Asset Manager/Institutional +12,233 (−833); Leveraged Funds +96 (+2,063).
- CME E-Mini Russell 2000, Tue 27 Oct: Asset Manager/Institutional +19,602 (−11,358); Leveraged Funds −48,081 (+4,954).
- COMEX Gold, Tue 27 Oct: Managed Money +105,562 (+1,356); Producer/Merchant/Processor/User −9,574 (+5,209).
- NYMEX WTI Crude Oil, Tue 27 Oct: Managed Money +31,128 (−5,059); Producer/Merchant/Processor/User +366,392 (+6,824).
- CME Euro FX, Tue 27 Oct: Asset Manager/Institutional +173,249 (−17,172); Leveraged Funds −71,574 (−2,734).
- CME Bitcoin Futures, Tue 27 Oct: Asset Manager/Institutional +2,754 (−245); Leveraged Funds −3,979 (+963).
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Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders, Traders in Financial Futures and Disaggregated reports, via publicreporting.cftc.gov. Percentiles are our calculation over the weekly history shown. General market information, not investment advice.
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