By April 24, funds held
a record net long position in U.S. gasoline equivalent to 111 million barrels as well as a net position in heating oil equivalent to 69 million barrels (https://tmsnrt.rs/2JEyL9A).
In April 2017, large speculators had built up
a record net long position of more than 103,000 contracts in silver futures with the metal trading at $ 18.30.
Finally, the CFTC's Commitments of Traders (COT) report shows that large speculative traders are holding
a record net long position in the euro, a polar opposite in sentiment toward currency relative to last year.
Not exact matches
The
net long position was still below the
record 1.484 billion barrels set back on Jan. 23.
The
net long position was still below the
record 1.484 billion barrels set back on Jan. 23 (https://tmsnrt.rs/2Jfts03).
In contrast, fund managers have been adding
net long positions in gasoline and heating oil, after cutting them in February and March, according to
position records published by regulators and exchanges.
Positioning data shows
net long euro
positions by speculators fell last week, albeit from a
record high, suggesting investors remain overwhelmingly bullish on the single currency but are reducing those bets.
They cut their
net long euro
position to 130,594 contracts from a
record 151,476 the week before, the biggest reduction since December.
According to Reuters, bullish
positions in Brent stood at a
record 587 million barrels as of Friday, with a
record 530 million of those
net long.
Since the December FOMC Meeting that sparked the next leg lower in the dollar, the Euro has averaged about a 4:3 Leveraged
net -
long ratio and reached a high of 5:2 while also reaching a
record long position that had 77,000 more
longs than shorts.
After having their largest
net - short
position on
record in May, by late - September speculators had built - up their largest
net -
long position in four years.
A combination of market
positioning, such as
record net -
long euro futures
positioning, rising U.S. interest rates, and diverging economic performances (such as data surprising indexes), seems to have encouraged the dollar's recent advance, helping our hedged
positions.
The
net result is that 1998 was a
record warm year because of both El Nino, the fact that TSI was higher at the time from the
position of 1998 in Solar Cyle 23, and potentially because of the
longer term effect of increased GHG.