TREE NEWS reports: Stock fund speculators reduced their net short positions in S&P 500 CME contracts by 42,221 lots to 348,674 lots in the week to October 20, the CFTC said. Stock fund managers also cut their net long positions in S&P 500 CME contracts by 18,079 lots to 894,464 lots over the same week.
CFTC: S&P 500 CME net short positions cut by 42,221 contracts
AI take
Both sides of the S&P 500 CME book moved in the same direction — shorts covering and longs trimming — which points to de-risking and position-squaring rather than a one-sided directional bet. For crypto and RWA desks, the read-across is about risk appetite at the index level, since equity positioning often sets the tone for how much risk portfolios carry elsewhere. Whether this contraction in both gross longs and shorts continues into the next reporting week is the open question.
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