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Two signals take effect this week based on recent trader positioning as reported in the Commitments of Traders reports: bearish for the S&P 500  and bearish for the 30-year Treasury bond . My other signals remain the same: bullish for my trading setups for the BKX U.S. Bank Index , gold  and natural gas  and bearish for crude oil  and the Nikkei . Copper  is in cash. See my latest signals table for more details on how COT trader positioning has shaped up lately. Good luck this week. Pura vida... Read Full Story

Mixed bag of new signals taking effect on Monday's open of trading: - bullish for the BKX U.S. Bank Index  (this based on bullish positioning in the three-month Eurodollar contract) - bearish for the Nikkei Stock Average - cash for the 30-year Treasury bond Meanwhile, my lovely and talented  natural gas setup is still bullish, and knock on wood, doing very nicely indeed. Gold is also doing well in bullish mode. The signals are based on my setups built around the Commitments of Traders reports... Read Full Story

Three signals take effect on today's open of trading based on my COTs Timer strategy: cash for copper  and bullish for gold and natural gas . Sorry about the last-minute update this week. I'm away in Costa Rica! Beautiful place, and very nice people, but oh so very hot! Check my latest signals table for more details on these and my other setups. Good luck this week. Read Full Story

The wrong-way small traders have gotten excessively bullish in their positioning in S&P 500 futures and options, according to the latest Commitments of Traders report. That's helped push my setup for the S&P 500 into the bearish column with a three-week trade delay, meaning the trade takes effect the open of the week of Feb. 5. Meanwhile, my BKX Bank Index  setup has gone to cash this week. See the details for these and the other COT data I am following with my COTs Timer system on my newly... Read Full Story

U.S. banks are bearish as of this week's open of trading, according to my trading setup for the BKX U.S. Bank Index  based on the Commitments of Traders reports. Copper , on the other hand, goes bullish, as does my setup for the 30-year Treasury bond . Check out the details on my latest signals table . Good luck this week. Read Full Story

Happy New Year! I've just updated my latest signals table based on Friday's Commitments of Traders data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Signals taking effect the first week of 2012: Nikkei  and natural gas  to cash. See the table for more fascinating details about trader positioning in the eight markets I'm following with my COTs Timer trading strategy. Thanks to readers for following this blog and your feedback over the last year and since I started it in 2007. I've... Read Full Story

I take it back. We got a beautiful bunch of fluffy snow this week to cover everything in a great big layer of snow just in time for Christmas. The wood stove is fired up, and we're as excited as can be for Santa up here in Quebec's Eastern Townships. If only the news was so good coming out of the grinch-like trader positioning reflected in this afternoon's Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. As you'll see from my newly updated latest signals table... Read Full Story

Three signals take effect on next Monday's open of trading, coming out of my trading setups based on the weekly Commitments of Traders report from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission: - Gold  goes from bullish to cash. This is based on excessive bullishness in the large speculator total open interest starting several weeks ago. We could be in cash (or potentially bearish) for awhile. - Natural gas  goes from bullish to bearish. This signal will last two weeks. - Nikkei  goes from... Read Full Story

Short post this week - apologies! My signals table is now updated based on Friday's Commitments of Traders data. Signals for Monday's open: cash for the  S&P 500 and bearish for the 30-year Treasury bond . Some of my other setups also have new signals for later in the month. See the signals table for all the details on how trader positioning looks right now. Hope you have a good weekend, and good luck next week. Read Full Story

I somehow missed doing my promised update after Monday's holiday-delayed Commitments of Traders report came out. Very sorry! All the latest data based on today's new COT report has now been crunched by my chastized yet keen team here at COTs Timer central, and my latest signals table has been updated. As it happens, last Monday's data didn't add any other signals than the ones I mentioned in last Saturday's post.  The new data from today, however, is a different story, as you'll see on my... Read Full Story