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 | 64,977 | +3,804 | 82,521 | +2,152 | -17,544 | +1,652 | ||
| Wheat – hard red winter | 39,099 | +971 | 62,764 | +1,083 | -23,665 | -112 | ||
| Soyoil | 99,879 | +3,497 | 257,319 | +4,333 | -157,440 | -836 | ||
| Soybeans | 210,752 | -2,745 | 409,609 | +29,650 | -198,857 | -32,395 | ||
| Soymeal | 59,746 | +220 | 314,614 | +4,968 | -254,868 | -4,748 | ||
| Corn | 381,152 | +9,768 | 782,128 | +37,878 | -400,976 | -28,110 | ||
| 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 | 10,569 | +1,352 | 4,606 | -1,607 | 5,963 | +2,959 | ||
| Lean hogs | 39,025 | +4,087 | 90,529 | -5,817 | -51,504 | +9,904 | ||
| Live cattle | 47,629 | +4,292 | 175,907 | -4,530 | -128,278 | +8,822 | ||
| 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) | 95,464 | +9,629 | 88,166 | +2,777 | 7,298 | +6,852 | ||
| Cocoa | 135,519 | +8,148 | 158,894 | +6,885 | -23,375 | +1,263 | ||
| Cotton | 64,148 | -94 | 95,624 | -6,345 | -31,476 | +6,251 | ||
| Raw sugar | 295,171 | -7,376 | 464,740 | -11,163 | -169,569 | +3,787 | ||
| 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 | 97,223 | +9,731 | 271,042 | -11,954 | -173,819 | +21,685 | ||
| Softs | 590,302 | +10,307 | 807,424 | -7,846 | -217,122 | +18,153 | ||
| Grains | 855,605 | +15,515 | 1,908,955 | +80,064 | -1,053,350 | -64,549 | ||
| Total | 1,543,130 | +35,553 | 2,987,421 | +60,264 | -1,444,291 | -24,711 | ||
| Source: CFTC. Data in contracts, futures and options combined. Net position = gross long-gross short |
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