Hedge Funds Hike Bearish Bets on Softs to Record High – ‘Heralding Price Gains’

(Agrimoney) Hedge funds turned record bearish on soft commodities, raising ideas that prices are vulnerable to an upward spike from a change in sentiment, but continued to cut short bets on wheat, crystallising losses. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, trimmed its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to cotton, by just 14 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.

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