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FX SENTIMENT REPORT
– There were very few changes this week as the market was likely hesitant to make significant positioning shifts leading into the FOMC, ECB and nonfarm payrolls.
Foreign Exchange Outlook
The USD has entered a period of retracement, weakening against most currencies in April (except the JPY),
FX SENTIMENT REPORT
– Traders continue to hold a net long USD position of $16.6bn, with short positions in CAD, JPY, EUR and GBP and long positions in AUD, NZD, MXN and CHF.
CFTC: EUR buying resumed; The other currency futures were sold
Hedge funds and other large traders made only small adjustments to their IMM currency futures positions during the week ending October 16.
CFTC: Dollar position negative for the first time in 11 months
Money managers continued as net sellers of dollars for the fifth week in a row according to data from the CFTC covering the end of trading on August 21, which was one day ahead of the release of the dovish Federal Open Market Committee minutes from the US Federal Reserve.
CFTC: AUD gross long in new record; Aggregate dollar long drops
Money managers and other speculative traders continued to reduce their long dollar positions during the week ending August 14. The aggregate dollar position versus the eight IMM currency futures which we track in this report dropped to USD 4.6 billion, which is the lowest level in 11 months.
CFTC: Net dollar long at six month low; AUD receives another lift
Speculative investors in the eight IMM currency futures tracked in this report continued to scale back their dollar long positions for a third week.
CFTC: Positive dollar sentiment weakens further
The weekly data from the US CFTC covering the week ending July 31 showed another big reduction in the aggregate net long dollar position held by hedge funds and other large speculators in IMM currency futures.
Speculative Positions
Normalization of previous risk-off positioning the major theme Summary of the non-commercial (“speculative”) accounts in the CoT report (June 27 – July 3)
CFTC: Dollar long extended ahead of Fridays violent price action
The latest data from the CFTC covering the week ending June 26 showed that speculative traders in IMM currency futures increased their aggregate long dollar position by 20 percent to USD 27 billion.
CFTC: Dollar long cut by 44 percent; AUD back to neutral
Hedge funds and other money managers cut their net dollar long exposure through IMM currency futures by 44 percent following the Greek election and ahead of the US Federal Open market Committee meeting.