While the immediate effect on bitcoin's price has been positive, it is widely believed that the introduction of future contracts will be the first real test for bitcoin's valuation as investors now have a proper vehicle to stake
bearish positions.
We're beginning to see them shift their money to
bearish positions.
Unless the WASDE suggests a fundamental change, which is unlikely, then we would look to establish
bearish positions at that level.
Net
bearish positions on USD increased further.
Over the past two days, with the main stock market indexes falling sharply,
those bearish positions have started working out nicely.
When it became clear earlier bullish bets on oil post-OPEC were about to cost speculators a lot of money, traders and their machines took over and engineered
bearish positions to mitigate losses.
Also adding to negative outlook — soaring global warehouse stocks, hedge funds
bearish positions at 17 - month high and subdued Chinese demand.
One of the more comprehensive presentations of
the bearish position is to be found in «Why housing affordability is a misleading indicator,» by Ben Rabidoux.
Global Currency Strategist Hans Redeker notes that
bearish positioning in the futures market shows the most extreme negative view of the dollar since April 2009.
In this case, buying EEV was the same as taking
a bearish position on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (note that «short ETFs» are designed to be used only for quick, short - term trades).
Even the experts such as George Soros with his extremely
bearish position on the stock market might be wrong.
We have been partially invested in trading accounts, in
a bearish position with 1/3 of our position profitably in bond ETFs and another 1/3 in an inverse (short) ETF, as I predicted last week.
We have been partially invested in trading accounts, in
a bearish position with 1/3 of our position profitably in bond ETFs.
This is
a bearish position.
During an uptrend, you could take
a bearish position near the swing high because you expect the stock to retrace and go back down.
If the stock heads lower than the counter trend's previous day's low, the swing trader could enter
a bearish position.
Lets assume that after checking the technicals, and the volatility surrounding Greece's future in the eurozone, a trader takes
a bearish position on the EUR / USD and decides to short the euro June 2015 contract.
However, they do all allow you to buy puts, which is
a bearish position, because your potential loss is limited to the price you paid for the put ($ 2,700).
Several years ago when other investors were buying U.S. Treasuries for their safety and liquidity, Templeton Global Bond Fund's award - winning manager, Michael Hasenstab was an early seller,
a bearish position he maintains to this day.
Not exact matches
While the short
position Chanos has in Alibaba has not worked out, Yusko was right on one of his most
bearish calls in recent years: In early 2015 he predicted oil would hit $ 30 when many thought crude had already hit a bottom.
And while BAML is quick to note that this isn't an outwardly
bearish signal, it does mark a shift towards a more cautious overall stance for investors as they
position for lower yields (see chart below).
Far from being perma -
bearish, our present methods of classifying market return / risk profiles encourage a leveraged long
position about 52 % of the time in market cycles across history, encouraging a partially - hedged stance about 12 % of the time, fully - hedged about 31 % of the time, and hard - defensive as we are today about 5 % of the time.
Now that the change to an overall
bearish sentiment has been confirmed, we are now patiently waiting for an eventual bounce in the broad market that will provide us with ideal, low - risk entry points on new short
positions or inversely correlated «short» ETFs.
In bull markets, when a market makes a new high consistently, every day a large heard of
bearish traders are getting stopped out of short
positions and liquidating, which fuels yet more buying.
http://admin.futuresmag.com/admin/structure/nodequeueHedge funds are not listening to crazy
bearish crude oil price predictions like Goldman's $ 20 a barrel call and instead are amassing its biggest net long
position since last April.
With the short - term picture being
bearish, traders should still not enter
positions here, but long - term investors could add to their holdings.
Still, we always respect a
bearish market timing signal by moving to cash and / or tightening up stops on long
positions and waiting for conditions to improve before establishing new long
positions.
«The recent rally is also a reflection of the extremely
bearish sentiment and
positioning on emerging markets,» he said.
Figure 4 shows a
bearish crossover in May, signaling to get out of any long
positions acquired during the uptrend.
Now, there is a case to be made that
bearish investor
positioning has been completely reversed and that equity markets and other assets that could be negatively affected by a Brexit have overshot to the upside.
By CountingPips.com — Receive our weekly COT Reports by Email US Dollar Index Non-Commercial Speculator
Positions: Large dollar speculators raised their bearish net positions in the US Dollar Index futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
Positions: Large dollar speculators raised their
bearish net
positions in the US Dollar Index futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
positions in the US Dollar Index futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
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Positions: Large cryptocurrency speculators trimmed their bearish net positions in the Bitcoin futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
Positions: Large cryptocurrency speculators trimmed their
bearish net
positions in the Bitcoin futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
positions in the Bitcoin futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
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Positions: Large speculators continued to increase their bearish net positions in the Eurodollar futures (interbank dollar deposits, not euro currency) markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
Positions: Large speculators continued to increase their
bearish net
positions in the Eurodollar futures (interbank dollar deposits, not euro currency) markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
positions in the Eurodollar futures (interbank dollar deposits, not euro currency) markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
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Positions: Large bond speculators increased their bearish net positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
Positions: Large bond speculators increased their
bearish net
positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
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positions fell to $ -23.42 billion this week The latest data for the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report, released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday, showed that large traders and currency speculators increased their aggregate
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Positions: Large bond speculators sharply increased their bearish net positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
Positions: Large bond speculators sharply increased their
bearish net
positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) o
positions in the 10 - Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
However,
positioning of fund managers is already extremely
bearish, especially on UK stocks.
I also would need to further
bearish confirmation before closing all existing long
positions and focusing on short selling.
These investors may accumulate long
positions in a heavily shorted stock if they believe its chances of success are significantly higher than believed by those who are
bearish on it.
Many traders who had been bullish and had long
positions have turned
bearish and may enter short
positions.
These funds typically take a short
position on the U.S. dollar like the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index
Bearish Fund (UDN), profiting from a fall in the value of the dollar relative to other currencies.
If you are in a long
position and want to hedge against a
bearish gap, buy a put option.
The covered - call strategy is often employed when an investor has a short - term neutral - to -
bearish view on the asset and for this reason decides to hold the asset (long) and simultaneously have a short
position via the option to generate income from the option premium.
A channel is plotted around the trend,
bearish or bullish, and the
position is taken where the prices bounce off the top line of the channel.
Regardless of what I thought, having a bullish pattern directly in front of a
bearish one is not conducive to a short
position.
Regardless of this specific
bearish argument, I fail to see enough downside to deter further Ford investments, much the less close out my
position.
SGX CFD Positional Stock Signals are for the Traders or Investors who aim to book good amount of profit from the equity market by holding
positions for certain duration of time in both Bullish as well as
Bearish market conditions.
Similarly, when the market becomes
bearish it is the time to sell and at this status, the trader must hold resistance on short
positions with stop - loss; these
positions must be squared off again when the market reaches neutral state.
If the very bullish investor wants to disguise his / her intentions, that investor can simply buy a whole bunch of puts — opening what appears to be a
bearish trade, and then buy stock to turn the
position into the equivalent of owning calls.
In the Canadian dollar's defense, there is still modest scope for optimism: Energy prices have room to potentially nudge higher (although much of the good news is already in the oil price), fears of a border adjustment tax have faded alongside expectations for broad - based tax reform, and net speculative
positioning in the Canadian dollar is already particularly
bearish (see the chart below).