| Hedge funds took their selldown in ags to the longest this year as they turned more bearish in particular on cotton and wheat, more than offsetting the impact of a short-covering wave in sugar. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, cut its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from cotton to cattle, by more than 31,000 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator.
The decline in the net long - the extent to which long positions, which profit when values rise, exceed short bets, which benefit when prices fall – was the seventh weekly drop in succession, the longest negative streak on positioning in more than a year...............................................Full Article: Source
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