CFTC commitment of traders highlights for the trading week ending March 13, 2018

  • EUR long 146K vs 133K long last week. Longs increased by 13K.
  • GBP long 8K vs 5K long last week. Longs increased by 3K.
  • JPY short 80K vs 87K short last week. Shorts trimmed by 7K.
  • CHF short 7K vs 8K short last week. Shorts trimmed by 1K
  • CAD long 19K vs 20K long last week. Longs trimmed by 1K.
  • AUD short 1K vs 3k long last week. Longs cut and position now short 1K.
  • NZD short 3KK vs 0.5K shorts increased 3K
  • Last week's data

Highlights:

  • EUR position just short of record high longs
  • JPY shorts continue to be whittled away.
  • AUD and NZD switch to shorts but positions are small
  • GBP, CHF, CAD positions little changed in the current week.
  • Speculators raise total US dollar net shorts to the largest since October