{"id":3011,"date":"2010-01-29T00:38:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2010-01-29T00:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T23:38:29","slug":"research-bleg-commitments-of-vix-traders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/3011\/research-bleg-commitments-of-vix-traders\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Bleg: Commitments of VIX Traders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.condoroptions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/computers.png\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.condoroptions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/computers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you hold a position larger than a specified threshold in a<br \/>\nfutures or options contract that is regulated by the CFTC, your<br \/>\nclearing firm must report it and classify your position as either<br \/>\ncommercial or non-commercial (I prefer the clarity of the old<br \/>\n\u201chedging vs speculative\u201d language, but whatever).&nbsp; Futures<br \/>\ntraders have been tracking these reports for years, but I\u2019m not<br \/>\naware of any studies that analyze the history of VIX futures<br \/>\ncommitments, with the exception of a comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/sentimentrader.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/speculators-betting-on-spike-in-vix.html\"><br \/>\nJason Goepfert<\/a> back in June 2009.<\/p>\n<p>If you insist on the existence of \u201cthe smart money,\u201d I can\u2019t<br \/>\nthink of a better g\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/SecretsoftraderscomMasterFeed\/~4\/9f9GmfSeF8A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you hold a position larger than a specified threshold in a futures or options contract that is regulated by the CFTC, your clearing firm must report it and classify your position as either commercial or non-commercial (I prefer the clarity of the old \u201chedging vs speculative\u201d language, but whatever).&nbsp; Futures traders have been tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welcome-start-here-tradecrudeoilchatroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bontrade.org\/blog49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}