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Long Story Short
Long Story Short is our weekly series on the COT report. In short articles, we explain the biggest shifts in the latest data and anything else that stands out.
- Every week
- New stories appear in the days after each Friday release, usually two a week.
- From the latest report
- Every story is based on the newest CFTC data, with positions as of the Tuesday before the release.
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- Each story takes about three minutes to read, and no account is needed.
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Earlier Stories
- October 11, 2026COT report of Oct 6, 2026
The Big Flip: From a Record Short to a Record Long in Soybean Meal
Speculators hold the biggest soybean meal long in forty years of data, fifteen months after they held the biggest short. The commercial firms on the other side are more short than at any time in the data.
- October 11, 2026COT report of Oct 6, 2026
The Dollar Bet: Speculators Are Short the Euro, the Pound and the Aussie at Once
Speculators are betting on the US dollar. They hold their biggest euro short since February 2020, and the pound, the Australian dollar and the Mexican peso are moving the same way.
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