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Alright US interest rate 4.75%>>>5.00%? Should be strong for US dollar now?

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  • First Post: May 11, 2006 5:41am May 11, 2006 5:41am
What's up w/ the dollar now? Shouldn't it be going long anytime soon since the fomc raised interest rates. Is it because of the oil prices and gold that's keeping making the dollar weaker?
I've been curious about this myself. I don't know how much the FOMC announcement will help since it was expected so the markets might have adjusted for this in the previous weeks. Not sure why the long term dollar bearish sentiments though.
check out the COT data...this may help you out. As long as the largest speculators are short the dollar, she aint goin nowhere.

Their decision whether to hold dollar longs or shorts and against which pair is based on much more than just the interest rate itself. It's a much bigger market than that.

Set the chart for any of the currency pairs and check out the long/short numbers on the bottom chart.

http://www.timingcharts.com/index.aspx
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The rate increase had already been priced into the market - it would only have made a difference if:

1. The rate increase didn't happen (stayed at 4.75%)
2. The increase was greater than to 5%
3. The language around the rate increase indicated more (or fewer) future increases

BAKROB
Mudd I agree completely. Here is antoher view of it... This is the US Dollar

Scott



Quoting MuddBuddha
check out the COT data...this may help you out. As long as the largest speculators are short the dollar, she aint goin nowhere.

Their decision whether to hold dollar longs or shorts and against which pair is based on much more than just the interest rate itself. It's a much bigger market than that.

Set the chart for any of the currency pairs and check out the long/short numbers on the bottom chart.

http://www.timingcharts.com/index.aspx
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Quoting MuddBuddha
check out the COT data...this may help you out. As long as the largest speculators are short the dollar, she aint goin nowhere.

Their decision whether to hold dollar longs or shorts and against which pair is based on much more than just the interest rate itself. It's a much bigger market than that.
I thought that with commercials so short on the EURO and speculators so long it signaled a reversal of the current trend. 'Extreme positioning identifies reversals.' COT data is not my strength. Did I understand what I read correctly? Your ideas Mudd?
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Well, you really have three layers: small speculators, commercial traders, and large speculators.

Large specualtors often set the overall trend of the market as they regard certain aspects as favorable positions that either oppose or support the dollar.

Commercial traders, like the one's that trade speciafically for brokers and smaller firms, banks, etc., often use the "fade the breakout" technique and are fond of shorting or longing agaisnt the trend. Most brokers hedge against their clients to protect their own equity which also places them in postiions agaisnt the trend as well. But that is the nature of the beast.

Small specualtors, as in you and I, have very little influence over the market and are forever doomed to ride the coat tails of the large speculators as they determine overall trend using whatever logic their dept. heads and advisory boards can conjure as sound. When you get several large specualtors, like Warren Buffets comapnies and others that take postiions for or against the dollar, all acting in a like fashion, they can set trend for months to years.
Normally however, they are as fickle as anyone else and will change strategies on the next fiscal turn around.

Hope that answers your question(?)
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Thanks for your answer Mudd.
Quoting smjones
Mudd I agree completely. Here is antoher view of it... This is the US Dollar

Scott
Hi Scott,

Where did you get this chart?
Can you explain me how you interpret this chart, or give me a link to read about this?
Thanks,
Cristian
Hi Mudd,

For GBPUSD for example, on what symbols do you look? Cause there is no pair in the page with the chart that is equivalent with GBPUSD, like Eurodollars is for EURUSD (I think). My guts tell me to look at Dollar Index and British Pound - Globex...

-soso
-soso
Oops, sorry for the wasted bandwidth... British Pound - Globex chart is the same witth the GBPUSD chart from my platform so I guess that's the answer.
-soso
-soso
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Yes I subscribe to this sight http://www.cot-futures.com/cot/index.htm

When the commercials and the small investors reach a maximum divergence of 100 and 0 one can usually expect a move in the direction of the commercial traders... thanks Scott

Update:

As an example, this is a chart of the Swiss Franc . If you look back a couple of weeks ago the Commercials reached 100 in their bullishness and the specs and small investors reached nearly 0 in their bullisness. That would mean you could have expected the Swissy to go up, which of course means the USDCHF would go down, because of the inverted nature of the pair. I believe that is exactly what happened.

Hope that helps, Scott


Quoting cristian
Hi Scott,

Where did you get this chart?
Can you explain me how you interpret this chart, or give me a link to read about this?
Thanks,
Cristian
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Scott, as I'm looking at Euro Globex the small investors are long 25K while commercials are short 100K. This is a difference of 125K....I don't quite understand what's with "0 one" in your post. Could you please ellaborate?

Thanks,
-soso
-soso
We are comparing apples to oranges. I am looking a chart that is put out by this specific company. It measures the following:

NET COMM Net Index for Commercial Traders
| INDEX
| A summary of the weekly number of Long & Short contracts
| (that exceed reportable limits) that are held by
| Commercial Traders each week is issued every two weeks
| by the CFTC.
|
| For each commodity and weekly status a NET Value is
| calculated by subtracting the number of reported Short
| positions from the Long. (spreads are excluded)
| NET = LONG minus SHORT positions.
|
| Over a given period (of weeks) the Index (INDEX) is
| calculated by:
| assigning an index value of 100 to the
| MAXIMUM NET position and
| assigning an index value of zero to the
| MINIMUM NET position.
| Pro-rata index values are assigned to
| IN-BETWEEN NET positions.
|
|
| There may be an increased probability of a price trend
| reversal at the zero or 100 value given a sufficient
| calculation span (see definition SPAN at the Commodity
| list).

this is the legend of how to use the data put out by this company.

Scott
Quoting soso_beton
Scott, as I'm looking at Euro Globex the small investors are long 25K while commercials are short 100K. This is a difference of 125K....I don't quite understand what's with "0 one" in your post. Could you please ellaborate?

Thanks,
-soso
Quoting MuddBuddha
Commercial traders, like the one's that trade speciafically for brokers and smaller firms, banks, etc., often use the "fade the breakout" technique and are fond of shorting or longing agaisnt the trend. Most brokers hedge against their clients to protect their own equity which also places them in postiions agaisnt the trend as well. But that is the nature of the beast.
I was under the understanding that the commercials were the ones that need to hedge real world exposures. For example in the current environment, euro dollar exporters would need to hedge their currency exposures for products they export to the US. If they didn't, a rising euro value would force them to raise prices, thus reducing demand. The Importers would just ride the current move since their inherently long the euro and benefiting as we go.

I don't use the COT data (too delayed for my style), but would still be interested in getting schooled on the subject.
Darkstar,

I use this data to get an overall feel of direction in the various commodity markets. I do not use this data for short term trading.

Scott
This is the weekly chart of USDCHF for that time period. On COT index
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What do each of the Colors (lines) represent on the chart? In other words - could you explain that chart for us?


Bakrob
Quoting Darkstar
I was under the understanding that the commercials were the ones that need to hedge real world exposures. For example in the current environment, euro dollar exporters would need to hedge their currency exposures for products they export to the US. If they didn't, a rising euro value would force them to raise prices, thus reducing demand. The Importers would just ride the current move since their inherently long the euro and benefiting as we go.

I don't use the COT data (too delayed for my style), but would still be interested in getting schooled on the subject.
I did last week some calculations on the values from the COT-report. Because of an article in www.investopedia.com about the COT-reports. In that article they showed a currencypair and teh values of its COT-reports. It showed that the COT-reports more or less predicted the direction of that pair for 70% correct. And ofcourse that made me curious.

I took the last years COT-reports of the 5 currencies (pound, euro, yen, canadian dollar and swiss franc). I also took the weekly values of those 5 pairs of the last year. I tried 2 simple systems. The first where I went long each week if the non-commercials in the COT-report had more long futures and I went short short when they had more short futures. In the second system, I went long, if the non-commercials were more bullish than previous weeks and short when they went less bullish. More bullish means that the long futures/short futures went up the last weeks, less means that it went down.

Both systems showed various results, from -12% to +8%. On average a very lttle gain for the first system and a very little loss for the second system. But even that was different for the different pairs. I think, it depends whether that pair was trending in the last year or it was going sideways. In a trending market it can be a little predictive, but not so much. So in my opinion it has hardly any predictive value. Assuming I made no errors in my calculation.
Quoting MuddBuddha
check out the COT data...this may help you out. As long as the largest speculators are short the dollar, she aint goin nowhere.

Their decision whether to hold dollar longs or shorts and against which pair is based on much more than just the interest rate itself. It's a much bigger market than that.

Set the chart for any of the currency pairs and check out the long/short numbers on the bottom chart.

http://www.timingcharts.com/index.aspx

Hey Mudd, let me get this clearer...I am attaching a chart of the E-Mini S&P 500 future...The chart is showing commercials long by 17,695, Large traders short by 184,458 and small speculators long by 166,763...

If I may ask, what do these numbers represent?? Does it mean that the net commercial positions are long 17,695 contracts??? Or what does it mean exactly???


Thanks,

Nader
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