- EUR net short 126,000 vs short 129,000 prior
- JPY net short 81,000 vs short 95,000 prior
- GBP net long 19,000 vs long 12,000 prior
- AUD net long 30,000 vs long 33,000 prior
- CAD net long 18,000 vs long 21,000 prior
- CHF net short 17,000 vs short 19,000 prior
- NZD net long 13,000 vs long 15,000 prior
Remember the BoE’s QIR and the employment data was out on Wednesday, but even without the info in hand the market continued to trim up length. Going into the report the position stood at 19k long from 12k in the previous week and a peak length in the beginning of July of 56k. One would imagine that by the end of next week (all else equal) this position is pretty close to flat if not a little net short given the price action.
The biggest position move of the week was in MXN length which plummeted last week going from 32k long to 41k contracts short. This is the first time the market has been short of MXN since March and is a pretty sharp decline from just under 80k contracts long in mid-July.
While I would have imagined most of the JPY short washout would have happened late last week (when the pair dipped to 101.60) and people may have already started to get short JPY at the start of last week (we got back through 102.20-30 by Tuesday), the short was still considerably lower at 81k vs 95k the week prior. I guess the real takeaway here is that there were definitely some people burnt by the quick move off the 102 handle a couple of weeks ago.
Elsewhere position trimming seemed a major theme. EUR shorts went down only modestly from 128.7k to 126k. This net short is still higher than any time in 2013. Cad longs fell from 21k to 18k. AUD long feel from 33k to 29.5k. While this position is now reasonably well off of the peak length in Mid-July around 42k, we’re still longer than we were since the taper tantrum last year. CHF shorts went from 18.8k to 17.3k as well. So all told a little bit of position clean up but the positioning themes are largely intact.
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