Ann: Becoming a substantial holder, page-48

WE SEE THEM THERE, WE SEE THEM EVERYWHERE. Short squeeze?

The chart below shows the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report of the net positions for “non-commercial” (speculative) traders in U.S. futures markets.
In English?

It shows you how short term traders are positioned in S&P500 futures. At the start of June, traders were net short a whopping 434,000 contracts, the largest net short position in at least 8 years (see below).

net short position

In the past six weeks, this position has been cut in half.
As of Tuesday 11 July, traders were net short 207,000 contracts.
My guess is that last week’s better than expected CPI release caused more short covering.
We won’t get that data until Friday though, as the Friday release only reports on positions as at the prior Tuesday.

So that’s something to keep an eye on…

S&P500 speculative