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This is an old April fool post from our blog (discontinued): US regulatory authorities — CFTC and NFA — proposed a new initiative today. The main idea of their proposal is to monopolize the retail Forex market by the government. All the existing registered US brokers should be nationalized and...

US dollar net long bets edged up last week to $26.46 billion from $26.16 billion against the major currencies during the previous week, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to October 30 and released on Friday November 2. The dollar bullish...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report 05 November 2013, published 08 October 2013, Technical Analysis. For the first time in nine weeks, spec long positions in the USD has increased. The total USD long is now up to 93,646 contracts, compared to only 12,746 contracts last week. Shorts...

There was near-unanimous liquidation by selling in the USD longs in all the contracts we review except the SF, and the New Zealand USD. Selling of the USD by those previously short in the pound and the euro were the most active. Specs, however, have more selling of the USD before they can...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report 16 April, published 19 April 2013 - Technical Analysis. There was aggressive buying in the Euro during the latest period. We suspected the run up to the 1.32 level on the 16th of April was short-covering, and the market has subsequently reversed. The...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report 02 April, published 05 March 2013 - Technical Analysis. Speculators increased their aggregate net position in the USD to 338,399 contracts, up from 322,132 in the previous week. Almost all of the increase was caused by additional short selling in the...

CFTC Commitment of Traders (COT) Report, published 29 January 2013 - Technical Analysis. Continuing last week's trend, the speculators aggregate position short position in the USD was again reduced. Last week, the reduction was a mere 25K but this week the specs got serious and reduced their...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report, published 08 January 2013 - Technical Analysis. Currency futures traders were busy reducing positions in the first week of the New Year. The collective reduction was 42K contracts but there was no liquidation in all contracts. Most of the liquidation...

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Report, 11 December 2012 - Technical Analysis. The net spec short position in the USD grew this past week from 68K contracts to 109K contracts. While the aggregate net position is USD short, the specs do have a very big position short the yen and long the USD...