All analysis above are sharing individual opinion based on personal educational background and professional experience. No financial advice is provided. While COT report has its limits such as lagging, infrequent updates, highly subjected to ...

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Quoting from the CFTC official site, “Spreading” is a computed amount equal to offsetting long and short positions held by a trader. According to the CFTC definition, I made chart below as an indicator gauging the confidence of large traders in ...

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Below 2 charts below show absolute # of contracts held by commercial and non-commercial, respectively. At at 1st glance, we know that commercials have been net short on GOLD since 2019. Since early 2021, commercial long on GOLD has been fairly ...

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The short component provides more interesting information. We can see around 4/22 that the speculator short weight temporarily took over. Remember, speculators are dominant in long contracts(75%+). The fact that speculators' short weight abruptly ...

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The above chart displays % percentage of players holding long contracts in GOLD The speculator(non-commercials) long took control of the bull market since March 2024, which is also approximately the time the gold price took off Weight of speculator ...

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Open Interest is not directly related to the rise and fall of asset prices; however, it indicates the overall interest the market participants have in the development of the underlying asset. From the above chart, we see OI reached a high on the ...

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Moving to the recent days. With steady fund inflow USDCAD edge up, I think it is wise to put up a long bias.(personal opinion, no recommendation or advice here) With institutional fund backing up, the risk of a sudden drop is limited(it is still ...

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Depends on how you define when a trend begins, you may draw different conclusions on whether this fund flow is a leading indicator or a confirmation indicator. But I m not so fixated on the exact timing. If Buffet does not build his Apple position ...

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If you strictly follow fund flow and short during 7/10-7/16 you likely will not make much money. No system is perfect all the time! but in the mean time, the upward movement is pretty much capped, without institutional interests it is very hard to ...

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Between 4/23-5/2 funds slowly built up long positions while the price traded tight range. Since last huge drop in early April, even traders were concerning about any further down push, with the evidence of fund inflow it would be wise to keep short ...

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from 2025/03/28-2025/04/01 fund start leaving USDCAD while price maintained its level. As the outflow accelerated price started to react, without institutional funds, the price cannot sustain.

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I can't agree with you more sir. The whole approach, the method is no secret. If you do not have this type of info you can't do HFT, you can't arbitrage, you can't MM. I do wish I have the capital to tap into major exchanges or LPs, but I guess I ...

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Seems like funds are determined to leave. When price goes again position(red) cut loss quickly. When price goes with flow(green) enjoy the ride. Now could be another push to the lower, I would slowly build up a short position from here. But always ...

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Another divergence lasted for a while. Betting against the trend is never smart. But when the smart money is leaving the table, it is wise to play safe and play small.

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Yellow line is the cumulative fund flow in/out gold spot. Green and purple line is simply 24 hour high low of the yellow. It is very clear since late June 2025 institional funds are leaving, while gold is maintaining current level, who is buying? I ...

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