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 | 61,173 | +2,133 | 80,369 | -7,763 | -19,196 | +9,896 | ||
| Wheat – hard red winter | 38,128 | +4,254 | 61,681 | -1,984 | -23,553 | +6,238 | ||
| Soyoil | 96,382 | +5,972 | 252,986 | -3,821 | -156,604 | +9,793 | ||
| Soybeans | 213,497 | +15,884 | 379,959 | +8,499 | -166,462 | +7,385 | ||
| Soymeal | 59,526 | -4,494 | 309,646 | -4,957 | -250,120 | +463 | ||
| Corn | 371,384 | +29,563 | 744,250 | -16,783 | -372,866 | +46,346 | ||
| 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 | 9,217 | -769 | 6,213 | -434 | 3,004 | -335 | ||
| Lean hogs | 34,938 | +7,526 | 96,346 | -10,648 | -61,408 | +18,174 | ||
| Live cattle | 43,337 | -1,178 | 180,437 | +3,142 | -137,100 | -4,320 | ||
| 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) | 85,835 | +12,469 | 85,389 | +1,158 | 446 | +11,311 | ||
| Cocoa | 127,371 | +10,485 | 152,009 | +11,222 | -24,638 | -737 | ||
| Cotton | 64,242 | +5,478 | 101,969 | +4,126 | -37,727 | +1,352 | ||
| Raw sugar | 302,547 | +26,873 | 475,903 | -20,737 | -173,356 | +47,610 | ||
| 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 | 87,492 | +5,579 | 282,996 | -7,940 | -195,504 | +13,519 | ||
| Softs | 579,995 | +55,305 | 815,270 | -4,231 | -235,275 | +59,536 | ||
| Grains | 840,090 | +53,312 | 1,828,891 | -26,809 | -988,801 | +80,121 | ||
| Total | 1,507,577 | +114,196 | 2,927,157 | -38,980 | -1,419,580 | +153,176 | ||
| Source: CFTC. Data in contracts, futures and options combined. Net position = gross long-gross short |
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