Latest commitment of traders report for Bitcoin futures

Asset manager (institutional) positions are at long 222 (down -38) vs short 224 (same as last week)
Leverage funds stand at long 2,002 (up 155) vs short 2,480 (up 216)

Rajan Dhall, MSTA FX Daily

Overall the asset manager and institutional positions fell by 38 contracts but the short positions outweighed the long by 2 contracts. The all-important leveraged positions showed that short positions outweighed longs by 478 contracts and in the other reportables section which is often disregarded shorts are way over longs by 1346 vs 647.

Compared to last week leveraged money grew their long positions from 1847 contracts to 2002, while asset managers dropped 38 long contracts.

Leverage money also increased their short positions from 2264 to 2480 and asset manager short position stayed the same at 224 contracts.

Author

Rajan Dhall, MSTA

FX Daily

Rajan Dhall is an experienced market analyst, who has been trading professionally since 2007 managing various funds producing exceptional returns.

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