Weekly Commitment of Traders breakdowns, plain-English guides to reading CFTC data, and case studies on what speculator extremes actually mean.
Speculators were stacking gold longs into the highs as of Tuesday's CFTC snapshot, then Friday's hot jobs report erased gold's entire 2026 gain. A textbook crowded-trade unwind, read through the positioning data.
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