A Spoon for Your Alphabet Soup
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Look Out Below…
Just as managed futures were starting to gain back some steam (see week in review here) with “risk on” long positions in energies, metals, stock indices, and currencies; Goldman Sachs goes and messes everything up with comments that they are exiting their long commodity trade…. (sure would be nice to be their prop desk and […]
Forget Crude and Silver… what about Cotton?
With all the talk about the super rally in Crude Oil on the back of the unrest in the Middle East, and the Silver rally on the back of rumors of physical Silver for delivery being gobbled up at a breakneck pace (zerohedge)– the moves in those markets pale in comparison to what we’ve seen in Cotton over the past weeks and year to date…
US Dollar/Commodity Divergence
Interesting to see the US Dollar up about 0.75% today, and commodities NOT following that move with a huge sell off. Palladium, Silver, and Crude are all up around +2% today in spite of the dollar rally, while Cotton is up more than +5%. While this divergence may be too little to late for managed […]
CTAs Keeping a Close Eye on Margin Requirements
Could part of the recent sell off (excluding yesterday) in commodity markets be related to increases in margin requirements? We have seen a very volatile month of trading across commodity exchanges around the world, and exchanges have responded by aggressively raising margins. Some might say they are trying to curb speculation…. but exchanges like ICE […]
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