{"id":10888,"date":"2010-09-13T08:49:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T12:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=10888"},"modified":"2010-09-13T08:49:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T12:49:30","slug":"commitment-of-traders-reversal-by-the-pros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/13\/commitment-of-traders-reversal-by-the-pros\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitment of Traders &#8211; Reversal By The Pros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CFTC report on holdings of traders is updated weekly. Since it is only a report that comes out each week, rather than daily &#8211; its use can only be looked at a a general gauge. But, it is good to know what the pros are doing &#8211; as compared to the &#8220;retail&#8221; <!--more-->investor. Often times, we can look at the retail component as a contrary indicator and the &#8220;pros&#8221; as a pre-cursor for the coming trend.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the retail levels for the S&amp;P 500 e-mini&#8217;s have come up and the pros have flattened their positions and are moving toward larger short exposure.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Cot 201009121 on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/37301502\/Cot-201009121\">CoT 201009121<\/a> <object id=\"doc_306852621436689\" style=\"outline: none;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"doc_306852621436689\" \/><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=37301502&amp;access_key=key-11syvszn3t3v7l91e74e&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"document_id=37301502&amp;access_key=key-11syvszn3t3v7l91e74e&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><embed id=\"doc_306852621436689\" style=\"outline: none;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" flashvars=\"document_id=37301502&amp;access_key=key-11syvszn3t3v7l91e74e&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" wmode=\"opaque\" data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" name=\"doc_306852621436689\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CFTC report on holdings of traders is updated weekly. 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