Futures market speculative positioning data from the CFTC Commitments of Traders report as of the close on Tuesday, August 6, 2013:

  • EUR net long 6k vs short 8k prior
  • JPY net short 80K vs short 82K prior
  • GBP net short 46K vs short 49K prior
  • AUD net short 77K vs short 73K prior
  • CAD net short 10K vs short 11K prior
  • NZD net short 1K vs short 1K prior
  • CHF net short 0.3k vs short 1K prior
  • Dollar Index net long 25K vs 25K prior

Speculators shift to euro net long position for the first time since late June.

I don’t do technical analysis on fundamental charts (because that’s straight voodoo) but this one looks like a ‘buy’.

EUR CFTC positioning August 9 2013

EUR CFTC net positioning August 9 2013