The weekly update from GrainPriceNews on changes in the positions held by the likes of merchants, processors and producers in futures and options in the major US-traded agricultural commodity contracts.
For the previous week’s data, click here.
| Grains |
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| Contract | Gross long | Change on week | Gross short | Change on week | Net long | Change on week | ||
| Wheat – soft red winter | 59,040 | +366 | 88,132 | +4,344 | -29,092 | -3,978 | ||
| Wheat – hard red winter | 33,874 | +554 | 63,665 | +853 | -29,791 | -299 | ||
| Soyoil | 90,410 | +1,442 | 256,807 | -430 | -166,397 | +1,872 | ||
| Soybeans | 197,613 | -1,820 | 371,460 | +8,897 | -173,847 | -10,717 | ||
| Soymeal | 64,020 | -1,060 | 314,603 | +6,778 | -250,583 | -7,838 | ||
| Corn | 341,821 | -7,454 | 761,033 | +23,713 | -419,212 | -31,167 | ||
| Source: CFTC. Data in contracts, futures and options combined. Net position = gross long-gross short |
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| Livestock | ||||||||
| Contract | Gross long | Change on week | Gross short | Change on week | Net long | Change on week | ||
| Feeder cattle | 9,986 | -721 | 6,647 | -430 | 3,339 | -291 | ||
| Lean hogs | 27,412 | +2,247 | 106,994 | -2,474 | -79,582 | +4,721 | ||
| Live cattle | 44,515 | -37 | 177,295 | +475 | -132,780 | -512 | ||
| Source: CFTC. Data in contracts, futures and options combined. Net position = gross long-gross short | ||||||||
| Softs | ||||||||
| Contract | Gross long | Change on week | Gross short | Change on week | Net long | Change on week | ||
| Coffee (arabica) | 73,366 | +794 | 84,231 | +2,812 | -10,865 | -2,018 | ||
| Cocoa | 116,886 | +1,137 | 140,787 | -+3,089 | -23,901 | +4,226 | ||
| Cotton | 58,764 | +2,683 | 97,843 | -600 | -39,079 | +3,283 | ||
| Raw sugar | 275,674 | +2,282 | 496,640 | -11,808 | -220,966 | +14,090 | ||
| Source: CFTC. Data in contracts, futures and options combined. Net position = gross long-gross short | ||||||||
| Overall | ||||||||
| Contract | Gross long | Change on week | Gross short | Change on week | Net long | Change on week | ||
| Livestock | 81,913 | +1,489 | 290,936 | -2,429 | -209,023 | +3,918 | ||
| Softs | 524,690 | +6,896 | 819,501 | -12,685 | -294,811 | +19,581 | ||
| Grains | 786,778 | -7,972 | 1,855,700 | +44,155 | -1,068,922 | -52,127 | ||
| Total | 1,393,381 | +413 | 2,966,137 | +29,041 | -1,572,756 | -28,628 | ||
| Source: CFTC. Data in contracts, futures and options combined. Net position = gross long-gross short |
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