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Positioning

Who is crowded in commodity futures?
Positioning — CFTC Managed-Money

CFTC managed-money net positioning across WTI, gold, copper, silver and wheat, each as a 3-year rolling z-score.

How Managed-money net (long − short) per commodity, z-scored over a 3-year rolling window.Source CFTC

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How to read Where speculative futures positioning sits versus its own 3-year history — a present-crowding read across the complex.

Descriptive and causally-agnostic — positioning extremes are reported, never read as a contrarian forecast; outside agriculture, swap-dealer flows are a noisy proxy for index demand (Cheng-Xiong).

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