TTM Speculative Activity Actually Decreased on the NYMEX [View article]
Noncommercials are not counted as speculators formally, but they represent indexing fund interests (and probably even spec positions of investment banks as well). Basically this data is useless. The 'speculators' like the USO ETF are in the noncommercial side, I believe. Noncommercial open interest is up about 1m contracts over the last few years.
Distraction by bad statistics is ... well.... bad?
TTM Speculative Activity Actually Decreased on the NYMEX [View article]
TTM Speculative Activity Actually Decreased on the NYMEX [View article]
Distraction by bad statistics is ... well.... bad?