CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of February 2, 2016.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: There you go!  Again. Less than three months after instituting the first rate hike in nine years, Fed officials are behaving as if … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of December 1, 2015.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: Will it or wouldn’t it?  Will the Fed switch into a tightening mode in the face of U.S. manufacturing just entering contraction? In … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of October 20, 2015.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: At the press conference following the ECB meeting on Thursday, when asked by a WSJ reporter as to why the bank is fighting … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of October 13, 2015.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: Central bankers were probably busy scratching their heads this week.  Despite trillions in quantitative easing and their valiant effort to push inflation above … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of October 6, 2015.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: Since the September 16-17 FOMC meeting, barring comments from hawks like John Williams, president of the San Francisco Fed, and Dennis Lockhart, president … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of September 22, 2015.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: Last week, post-FOMC decision not to hike, stocks fell.  They had rallied strongly into the meeting, and were probably set to drop either … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of September 8, 2015.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: More jawboning this week!  Following in the footsteps of Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director, Kaushik Basu, World Bank chief economist, says the Fed … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of September 1, 2015.  Change is week-over-week. 10-year note: The IMF is at it again.  This week, it reiterated its stance that advanced economies should maintain accommodative monetary policies.  By that it … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials as of August 25, 2015.  Change is week-over-week.  (Please keep in mind that these holdings are as of Tuesday.  By then, from high to low the S&P 500 was down 12.5 percent.  In … Continued

CoT: Peek Into Future Through Futures

The following are futures positions of non-commercials contained in the Commitment of Traders report as of August 18, 2015.  Change is week-over-week.  (Please note that these holdings are as of Tuesday.  The S&P 500 swooned six percent in the next … Continued