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Commercial Traders Ahead of the Game

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission publishes a weekly report entitled, “Commitment of Traders.” This report totals the
positions by all major commodity market players and breaks them down into a few important categories. The category that is most predictive of future moves in the commodity markets is the
Commercial Trader category. This group is made up of people who are hedging their need for the physical commodity to meet future production as well as the producers of physical commodities who are