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Episode 66 | Jason Shapiro - 'The Contrarian Trader'

A TRADER'S LIFE

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What Is the Commitment to Traders?

The commitment to traders is produced by the CFTC in the US who regulates the futures markets. They aggregate all the positions that are outstanding and they release that every week. So you have three categories, commercials, large speculators and small speculators. It shows you where they are positioned. And I find that when speculators are very, very short relative to history, that's when I'm looking to get long. When they're very, very long relative tohistory, I'm lookingto get short.

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