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Positioning

Who is crowded in crypto futures?
Positioning — CFTC Bitcoin & Ether Futures

CME Bitcoin and Ether futures positioning by CFTC trader category — Leveraged Funds (the dominant fast-money seat) and Asset Managers (real money) — each as a 3-year rolling z-score of the net position.

How Net (long − short) per category per contract from the CFTC Traders-in-Financial-Futures report, z-scored over a 3-year rolling window. Zero = neutral vs own history.Formula z₃ᵧ(category net long − short)Source CFTC (CME)

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How to read Where speculative crypto-futures positioning sits versus its own 3-year history, split by the fast-money (Leveraged Funds) and real-money (Asset Managers) seats.

Descriptive present crowding — an extreme is reported, NEVER read as a contrarian squeeze signal. This is the regulated CME-futures seat only; cross-exchange perpetual funding / open interest aggregation is paid and deferred.

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