Sentences with phrase «speculative long position»

For the past few months the net speculative long position in euro futures has hovered near an all - time high.

Over the past several years we have seen a few amazing moves in futures positioning in a number of commodities, such as e.g. in crude oil, where the by far largest speculative long positions in history have been amassed.

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.

While market sentiment towards the Australian dollar remains positive, there has been a scaling back of speculative long positions in Australian dollar futures, albeit from high levels.

A controlled burn could be healthy but speculative long positions may be forced to unwind quickly.

We really hope global demand growth expectations materialize, otherwise we will once again be out of balance at a time when speculative long positions are at all - time highs.

Not exact matches

Since September 21, more than 80 % of speculative positions on bitcoin have been long... Analysts have also noted a major change in market confidence over the past two weeks, as investors looked past a series of negative news headlines involving bitcoin.

It's a similar story with silver, in that the price decline of the past two months has been accompanied by almost no reduction in the total speculative net - long position in Comex silver futures.

This was such an unusual and unexpected development that we felt we had to mention it in these pages (note: as of last week the speculative position has returned to net long 6,186 contracts, which is still very subdued exposure for this group of traders).

While there has been a substantial scaling back in speculative short positions against the US currency in recent months, especially vis - à - vis the euro, there is little sign that long positions in the Australian dollar have been trimmed.

There has been a roughly $ 100 pullback in the price from its early - September peak, but notice that there has been a relatively minor reduction in the total speculative net - long position.

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).

More recently, the relatively small size of the speculative net - long position in early - July of this year paved the way for a tradable rebound in the price, but by early - September the speculative net - long position had again risen to a relatively high level.

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.

However, the Australian dollar remains one of the few currencies in which market participants continue to have long speculative positions relative to the US dollar (Graph 24); in the case of the Japanese yen, Canadian dollar and Swiss franc, speculative positions against the US dollar are short.

If this bull market has a long future ahead of it — which I strongly doubt, but which we do have to allow — there will likely be several appropriate points to establish a speculative position at controlled risk (speculative, because my view is that the long - term investment merit of stocks is quite weak here).

If I were managing bonds at present, I would be giving up yield at present by selling my speculative long bond positions that served me well over the past few months in my model portfolio.

if you have a stock position that is sitting on massive gains (either from being very speculative or having held it for a long time), you can transfer it in to the TFSA, sell, and then withdraw it and reinvest it outside.

Speculative investors scaled back long positions marginally in the commodity currencies NZD, CAD and AUD, despite sustained str...

Speculative investors mainly added dollar shorts against the yen resulting in an increase in net long JPY positions to 39 percent of open interest.

Repos are used to finance long positions, borrow money to fund speculative investments, and cover short positions in securities.

Put buyers — those who hold a «long» — put are either speculative buyers looking for leverage or «insurance» buyers who want to protect their long positions in a stock for the period of time covered by the option.

As a general rule we do not accept speculative referrals, and our willingness to look at CVs will depend in part on how long we have been trying to fill a particular position.

Zivkovski also spoke to the importance of macro events, emphasizing that while long positions have piled up, these speculative wagers could potentially trigger a long squeeze, driving prices lower.