This morning I woke up to
my long Gold position going the opposite way....
Not exact matches
Since October, they have dramatically ramped up their
long positions in
gold futures contracts.
Meanwhile, hedge funds and money managers raised their net
long position in COMEX
gold contracts in the week to Jan. 30 to their highest level since late - September, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data showed on Friday.
Hedge funds and money managers raised their net
long position in COMEX
gold for the second straight week in the week to March 28, and boosted it slightly in silver, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed on Friday.
LONDON, Feb 6 -
Gold prices slipped on Tuesday, weighed down by a firmer dollar and as some investors were squeezed by falling stocks and cashed in
long positions in bullion.
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data on Friday showed that hedge funds and money managers raised their net
long positions in COMEX
gold in the week to Jan. 2.
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According to Kitco News, citing Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data, money managers increased their speculative
long positions in
gold futures by 34,928 contracts to a total of 183,080 for the week ended March 27.
Non-commercials have decreased their net -
long position, cutting 6,120 gross
gold longs and adding 6,197 gross shorts.
«Specs added short
gold exposure, while cutting
long positioning, as they bet the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) was determined to taper as soon as the economy allowed — December taper probabilities increased slightly,» stated TD Securities.
The study seeks to exploit «hedging pressure» (the fraction of
positions that are
long) for each of six liquid commodities (crude oil,
gold, silver, copper, soybeans and sugar) and for the S&P 500 Index.
As the bailout package came through, the probability of a default decreased and therefore those who were
long gold as a hedge against a crisis began to unwind their
positions.
However, in our opinion, the even greater opportunity, and certainly the more accessible one for most investors, is a
long position in
gold and
gold - mining shares.
However, to initiate a
position in
gold or
gold mining stocks is seen as potentially career - threatening at this juncture in part because the confidence game has persisted for so
long and in part because adoption of precious - metals exposure is seen as potentially harmful to performance.
The following weekly chart shows that the total speculative net -
long position in Comex
gold futures hit an all - time high in July of 2016 (the chart only covers the past three years, but I can assure you that it was an all - time high).
In fact one could even make the argument that the best trade for that type of situation is a
long gold / short
gold stocks
position, but we digress.
Therefore although a new all time high in
gold would cause us to seriously consider taking a
long position again, any technical breakout to a new high would have to be supported by some fundamental reasoning as to why
gold was about to embark on a major rally.
Disclosure: Today I have
long positions in
gold and silver stocks.
Investors are advised to square their
long positions on all commodities including
Gold.
Too be sure, whenever the COT report shows an extreme level in the bullion bank short
position in
gold and futures, offset by an extreme
long position held by the hedge funds, the criminal banks implement a «COT stop - loss hedge fund
long liquidation» algorithm which sets off the stop - losses set by the hedge funds and causes the now - familiar «waterfall» chart patterns that result from heavy bank manipulation of Comex trading.
If you hold a
position in
gold futures you can be either
long or short, but not both.
From the beginning of December to the latest COT report, the average large spec net
long position in
gold is 171k.
A «significant shift» in net
long positions in three - month
gold futures may affect prices at the margin in the short term, but tells us little about real investment demand.
Furthermore, a decline in
gold futures
positions at the COMEX futures exchange tells us little about the
long - term trend of the
gold market.
When mixed and annealed, the tetrahedral arrays formed superlattices with
long - range order where the
positions of the
gold nanoparticles mimics the arrangement of carbon atoms in a lattice of diamond, but at a scale about 100 times larger.
With Smaug no
longer reigning over the mountain — which houses hordes of
gold and offers a strategic
position worth fighting for — chaos ensues as five armies fight for the chance to be, for lack of a better phrase, «King of the Mountain.»
You made every public school educators point — these guys are imposters and a clown show — the receivers of donations are the JOKE — yet you think differently — now I know where you are coming from and will no
longer even contemplate your
positions — goodbye
Gold — Tom
One approach to replicate the Permanent Portfolio is to hold a stock,
long - term bond, cash, and
gold position.
I just wanted to toss this suggestion your way and the motivation is partly selfish, but given the decline in
gold the last 3 - 4 days (I actually exited all my
long positions around 1500 - 1505 last Friday based on the breach of the technical support level at 1525 - 1535 and am now short in my trading account from that same level) I'd be interested to get your qualitative thoughts and maybe an update on your refined quantitative model with negative real interest rates and where it says
gold should be trading.
We will maintain a core
position in
gold, but will be underweight in our
long - term targets in broader commodities in light of macro fundamentals.
Gold (31504):
Gold is trading into positive zone and traders can go
long at every dip or hold
long positions until
Gold closes below 31288 levels.
While I think the exposure to fixed income,
gold, and commodities are a great addition to the portfolio because of their low or negative correlation to the market, the author would simply view these
positions as just a fixed,
long - only trading strategy applied to each of those markets.
I would normally view a book with such a title with considerable skepticism even though, as the previous blog post reveals, I've
long been a believer in having a 5 to 10 %
position in some combination of
gold or precious metals stocks, mutual funds or ETFs, or the underlying physical metals (coins or bullion bars).
These ETFs are seeing a rise in value, volume, and
long positions, suggesting that investors are finally starting to pull away from the U.S. dollar as the safe - haven asset of choice and towards the more traditional choice —
gold.
Suppose A takes a
long position by buying a December
gold futures contract in January, and B at the same time takes a short
position by selling the contract.
Longer - term
position traders and investors can focus more on the fundamentals that drive
gold's price, such as the level of real interest rates.
CoinDesk Bitcoin prices surpassed those of
gold earlier this month, but the digital asset failed to maintain this
position for
long, data reveals.
Once heralded as the «silver to bitcoin's
gold», the developers behind the
long - running digital currency litecoin are seeking to reestablish the project's prior
position as the world's second most popular cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin prices surpassed those of
gold earlier this month, but the digital asset failed to maintain this
position for
long, data reveals.
Bitcoin
Gold to be distributed = -LRB-(Amount of Bitcoin owned) + (Amount of
long position held)--(Amount of short
position held)--(Amount of Bitcoin to be borrowed)-RRB-
Bitcoin
Gold to be distributed = -LRB-(Amount of Bitcoin you own) + (Amount of
long position you hold)--(Amount of short
position you hold)--(Amount of Bitcoin you're borrowing)-RRB-