About the Author |
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Acknowledgements |
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Preface |
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About the Companion Website |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Advanced Positioning, Flow, and Sentiment Analysis in Commodity Markets |
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1.1 Positioning Analysis -- What Is It? |
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1.2 The History of Positioning Data, the COT Report, and the Agencies that Provide the Data |
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1.3 Misunderstandings and Issues in Positioning Analysis |
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1.4 Futures and Options Data |
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Chapter 2 The Structure of the Positioning Data |
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2.1 The Structure of Positioning Data |
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2.2 Positioning Data for the London Metal Exchange (LME) -- The MiFID Classifications |
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2.3 Other Types of Positioning and Flow Data |
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2.4 The Structure of Commodity Markets |
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Chapter 3 Performance Attribution -- An Insight into Sentiment and Behavioural Analysis? |
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3.1 The Proliferation of Speculative Positioning Data |
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3.2 Why is Positioning Data Interesting |
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3.3 Measuring the Skill or Performance of MMs |
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3.4 Net Futures Positioning vs Net Trader Number Positioning or Alignment |
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Chapter 4 Concentration, Clustering, and Position Size -- Price Risks and Behavioural Patterns |
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4.1 Concentration, Clustering, and Position Size |
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4.2 Concentration, Clustering, Position Size, and Their Relationship to Price Over Time |
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Chapter 5 `Dry Powder (DP)' Analysis -- An Alternative Way to Visualise Positioning |
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5.1 Dry Powder (DP) Analysis |
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5.2 DP Indicator Variations |
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5.3 DP Indicators and Trading Signals |
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Chapter 6 Advanced DP Analysis -- Deeper Insights and More Variables |
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6.1 Advanced DP Indicator Charts |
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6.2 DP Indicators, Price, and Curve Structure |
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6.3 DP Hedging Indicators |
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6.4 DP Factor, Fundamental, and Currency Indicators |
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Chapter 7 Decomposing Trading Flow and Quantifying Position Dynamics |
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7.1 Decomposing Net Positioning The Methodology |
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7.2 Decomposing Long and Short Positioning -- The Methodology |
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7.3 Who Has Been Driving Prices? |
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7.4 Who is Trading With Whom? |
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7.6 Speed of Positioning Changes |
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Chapter 8 Overbought/Oversold (OBOS) Analysis -- The Intersection of Extremes |
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8.1 The Overbought/Oversold (OBOS) Philosophy |
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8.2 Constructing the Framework |
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8.3 The OBOS Concentration Indicator |
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8.4 Key Attributes of the OBOS Approach |
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8.5 Behavioural Patterns within the Boxes |
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8.7 The DP/OBOS Hybrid Indicator |
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Chapter 9 Advanced OBOS Analysis -- Extremes in Sentiment and Risk |
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9.1 The OBOS Framework -- Clustering and Position Sizes |
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9.2 OBOS Factor Indicators |
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9.3 Commodity Risk Premia Positioning Analysis and Risk Management |
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Chapter 10 Sentiment Analysis -- Sentiment Indices and Positioning Mismatches |
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10.1 The Difference between Trader Numbers and Open Interest |
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10.2 Trader Sentiment (TS) Indices |
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10.3 Mismatches in Positioning and Price Inflexion Points |
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Chapter 11 Newsflow in Positioning Analysis |
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11.1 Newsflow Data in Commodity Markets |
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11.2 Building Basic Newsflow Indices |
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11.3 Combining Newsflow with Positioning |
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11.4 Economic Policy Uncertainty |
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Chapter 12 Flow Analysis -- The `Flow Cube' and the `Build Ratio' in Commodity Markets |
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12.2 The Flow Cube down the Forward Curve |
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12.3 The LBMA-iTrade Data |
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Chapter 13 Chinese Commodity Markets -- Analysing Flow |
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13.1 The Chinese Commodity Exchanges |
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13.2 The Size of the Chinese Commodity Exchanges |
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13.3 Speculative vs Fledging Activity in Chinese Commodities |
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13.4 The Flow Cube and Build Ratio in Chinese Commodities |
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13.5 The OBOS Framework and the Speculation Ratio |
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Chapter 14 Machine Learning -- A Machine's Perspective on Positioning |
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14.1 Introduction to Machine Learning (ML) |
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Appendix 1 History of the COT Report |
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Appendix 2 The COT Reports |
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Index |
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