Oops, we did it again. Another solid USDA export report and the market tanked. The beginning of the week the market was on a tear to the upside but the market reaction to this “bullish” report turned the fundamentals on their ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Cotton Market
ICE Cotton futures continued its slide this week and traded below the 9 day moving average for the entire week. The spot N4 dropped a total of 323 points over the course of the week to close at 89.82, lowest settlement since beginning of ...
ICE Cotton futures gained almost 100 pts this week basis the N4 to settle at 93.25 c/lbs. Thursday was the soon-to-expire K4 contract's First Notice Day, which was preceded by a large drop in OI via EFP and EFS transactions, rumored to be ...
There was no shortage of news for the cotton market to digest this week as ICE futures lost over 300 pts basis the K4 contract. Losses on Monday were re-couped on Tuesday ahead of the USDA's monthly WASDE report, which contained few ...
Despite volatile trading, ICE Cotton futures settled only slightly higher this week at 93.74 c/lbs basis the K4, and not much change is seen in the overall open interest. The week opened down sharply on Monday, followed by a 350 pts gain on ...
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ICE Cotton traded slightly higher this week despite the nearby cash market grinding to a virtual standstill. Current crop export sales were just enough to support the market, while the attractiveness of SH 2014 offers at 1000 pts less than ...
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ICE Cotton stayed in an uptrend this week with K4 holding ground and settling at 92.19, up over 100 pts. Futures, with the help of a friendly spec contingent that had anticipated the USDA’s lowering of 13/14 carry-out estimate (and ...
ICE Cotton settled almost 150 pts lower for the week at 85.83 c/lbs basis the H4, which wasn’t bad considering Monday started with a 300 pts sell-off. What looked like a near-term top above 88 cents now has to be viewed a bit more ...
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ICE Cotton gained over 4 cents for the week on the back of spec buying, improved technicals and rising open interest, and the continued rawdown of US cotton stocks through strong export sales (223k overall). Although domestic basis levels ...
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It was a shortened trading week due to the Christmas holiday, and ICE cotton futures started the week non eventful, but finished it with three digit gains. The H4 contract topped over 85 cents and reached a two and a half month high during ...
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ICE Cotton traded almost unchanged this week, a slow, low-volume follow-up to last week’s strong gains. Cert stocks have steadily fallen to around 40k bales, with no new crop bales yet to turn up. Export sales this week were better ...
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ICE Cotton had its best week since August, gaining almost 400 pts to settle at 83.22 c/lbs basis H4. The USDA WASDE release on Tuesday was a non-event – failing to include an increase in US exports as had been expected by many – ...
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ICE Cotton lost 100 pts on the week to close at 77.35 basis the H4 contract, although it was a much more interesting week than the final price action would suggest. Z3 First Notice Day was today and, after the Z/H spread dropped to nearly ...
ICE Cotton settled lower again, closing at 76.58 on the back of two weeks of uninterrupted daily losses. Reporting remains delayed due to the government shutdown, but CFTC data released this week shows that spec selling - both long ...
ICE cotton settled slightly lower this week, closing at 83.11 basis Z3. Growing cert stocks and lower YoY Chinese cotton imports in September prompted bearish headlines that, along with sagging technicals and ideas that the US crop may be ...