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Dollar Long Slashed, Gold Long Jumped Ahead of FOMC

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Overall, these developments helped drive a 6% increase in the leverage position held by large money managers to 2.12 million lots, representing a nominal value of $146 billion. Buying was concentrated, and wrongly as it turned out following the hawkish FOMC meeting, in gold, while other contracts seeing strong demand were platinum, soybeans, corn, wheat, sugar and hogs. 

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Crude oil’s continued ascent continued during the reporting week, albeit at a slower pace with traders keeping a nervous eye on the general level of risk appetite amid tanking stocks ahead of the FOMC meeting. Brent crude oil’s first and failed attempt to break above $90 together with the mentioned nervousness helped trigger a small reduction in the combined net long held in WTI and Brent by 19.5k to 540k lots. A very volatile natural gas market saw the net long reduced by 13k lots in response to a 3.8% sell off during the reporting week. 

Gold’s 2.2% rally following the technical breakout above $1830 supported a 39% increase in the net long to 118k lots. The 33k lots of net buying was the strongest since November and was driven by a combination of fresh longs and short covering. These developments helped explain why the subsequent sell-off following last Wednesday’s hawkish FOMC tilt ended up being that aggressive after recently established longs scrambled to get out. Palladium’s 15% rally on Russia supply concerns supported a 4.7% rally in platinum which helped flip the position back to a net long. Copper activity was low with a reduction in both long and short positions driving a small increase in the net long. 

Agriculture

The grains sector was bought for a second week with net buying lifting longs across most contracts. Not least soybeans which reached a seven-month peak on strength in demand for plant-based fuels such as palm and soy oils and poor crop weather in parts of South America. The net short in CBOT wheat has almost halved while the long in Kansas wheat jumped 24% as fears of Russian military action in Ukraine raised concerns about a potential disruption to supplies from the Black Sea region. 

Sugar buyers returned and for the first time in many weeks some notably buying helped lift the net long by 24% from an 18-month low. The general loss of risk appetite helped trigger some mild long liquidation across the three other softs contracts of cocoa, coffee and cotton. 

Forex

Ahead of last Wednesday’s hawkish FOMC meeting which helped drive the dollar to an 18-month high, the flow was skewed towards further dollar long liquidation. Against ten IMM currency futures and the Dollar Index the net dollar long was reduced by $2.3 billion to a four-month low at $14.1 billion, representing a 40% reduction during the past two weeks alone. Selling of dollars was broad against the major currencies but concentrated against the euro (7k lots) and JPY (12.6k lots) and it probably helps to explain partly why these two currencies were particularly hard hit by sudden dollar strength. 

What is the Commitments of Traders report?

The COT reports are issued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the ICE Exchange Europe for Brent crude oil and gas oil. They are released every Friday after the U.S. close with data from the week ending the previous Tuesday. They break down the open interest in futures markets into different groups of users depending on the asset class.

Commodities: Producer/Merchant/Processor/User, Swap dealers, Managed Money and other

Financials: Dealer/Intermediary; Asset Manager/Institutional; Leveraged Funds and other

Forex: A broad breakdown between commercial and non-commercial (speculators)

The reasons why we focus primarily on the behavior of the highlighted groups are:

  • They are likely to have tight stops and no underlying exposure that is being hedged
  • This makes them most reactive to changes in fundamental or technical price developments
  • It provides views about major trends but also helps to decipher when a reversal is looming



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