Energy Hedge Fund Center

A controversial hedge fund-lite structure looks likely to survive, despite a regulatory clampdown that has claimed its first victim. Cantab Capital Partners, a $5.5bn systematic global macro manager, last week announced the imminent closure of its only onshore Ucits fund as a result of pressure from European regulators. However, fund promoters are restructuring a swath ... Read More

Hedge funds increased bets on lower gold prices after investors pulled a record $20.8 billion from bullion funds this year while BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s biggest money manager, said it’s still bullish. Speculators held 67,374 so-called short contracts on May 7, 6.4 percent more than a week earlier, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data ... Read More

The net long money held by hedge funds and other big speculators in commodities is back to a six-week high, moving on from April’s market tumble, as traders piled into oil and oversold crops like coffee, cocoa and corn, trade data showed on Friday. But hedge funds are not bullish on all commodities, sharply paring ... Read More

For the third consecutive week, hedge funds raised their net-long position in Brent crude during the week ending May 7. The increase was almost exclusively driven by the reduction of gross shorts as the 100 USD/barrel area lends support

Total holdings of gold in Exchange Traded Products fell by 34.3 tonnes last week. This was the 13th week in a row that investors pulled investments and the total holding of 2,227.8 tonnes is now at its lowest level since July 2011.

Hedge funds were net buyers across the agriculture sector, while both metals and energy saw small reductions during the week ending May 7. The dollar spike a couple of days later would most likely have triggered some additional reductions.

Sellers took control late last night and the medium-term support (and our first target at 1,440 USD/oz) has recently been taken out. Prices have now traded to our second target of 1,425 USD/oz.

The overall trend in Silver is undisputedly down and the recent consolidation and pause in the overall negative trend has been long enough for prices to be ready for a continuation lower.

Investors withdrew a record $9.3 billion from commodity exchange-traded products as gold sales pushed the metal into a bear market, BlackRock Inc (BLK) said. The outflow for commodities in April pushed the total for the first four months this year to $17.8 billion, compared with inflows of $6 billion for the same period last year, ... Read More

Commodity-based exchange traded products (ETPs) suffered record outflows of $9.3 billion in April, data showed on Thursday, as institutional investors dumped gold holdings. Leading wealth managers have been switching out of commodities since the start of the year in favour of equities and bonds as they look for yield, a trend which accelerated in April ... Read More