CHART OF THE DAY: Consensus (Non-Commercial) Futures & Options Positioning

08/03/21 07:57AM EDT

Below is a chart and brief excerpt from today's Early Look written by Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough.

What’s consensus macro positioning?

A) Long of US Dollars
B) Buying/Covering Short-term US Treasuries
C) Short Natural Gas

Whether you knew that or not doesn’t matter. That’s what consensus (non-commercial) futures & options positioning was as of last week. We measure and map these in ROC (rate of change) terms religiously.

Why use a 1-year z-score, or the number of standard deviations from the mean, for the position relative to itself? That’s easy: because it back-tests. Once something is plus or minus 2.0 on a 1-year look back, it’s time to consider fading the crowd.

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