Many Factors Lead To The International Cotton Futures Price Being Bottoming Out.

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< p > over the past six weeks, the total price of international cotton futures has fallen by 20%, falling into the bear market.

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The < p > iPath Cotton ETF (BAL) index has fallen 30% from its 2014 high, and has fallen below the low of 42 US dollars in 2012.

The international cotton futures price has fallen by nearly 60% since its record high in 2011, and is still on the historical bottom of 2012.

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< p > if the price is about to break down again, it will be significantly separated from the years of hyperinflation.

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< p > after entering the 2014 high point, the strong cotton market can not continue to maintain. As cotton futures prices contend for a high of 60 US dollars in 2013, the market has a negative mutual divergence (Negative divergence), which may indicate that the market will go down.

And the negative divergence from the previous high is a good sign: Based on the trend of the market this week, the cotton price outlook may go down.

Cotton prices plummeted in the past seven weeks as the short sellers stepped on the accelerator.

At present, relative strength index RSI (Relative Strength Index) is at extremely low level.

So, has the trend of the tug of motion been over extended to the downward trend? < /p >

< p > Chart: cotton ETF (BAL) weekly line < /p >

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< p > look at the latest cotton futures trader's position report: < /p >

< p > observe the blue line and the red line above.

Blue lines represent large traders, such as hedge funds or large institutional investors. Such people usually have large numbers of followers.

The red line represents a business trader, also known as "smart money", usually composed of companies involved in the spot commodity sector, such as Meng Shandou, agricultural practitioners and so on.

Such people generally hold a net short of merchandise because they mainly use futures markets to hedge the risk of price fluctuations in the spot market.

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< p > however, every other time, business < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > trader < /a > will also be close to or wholly holding the net long position of merchandise.

When this happens, trend changes usually follow.

This is exactly what is happening in the cotton market, and it has happened in the past seven years.

When commercial traders turn into cotton bulls, large traders who hold a net long position in cotton usually have a net short.

This happened last year.

Subsequently, international cotton prices continued to rebound in a few months.

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Therefore, we know that price has potential support, and commercial traders have started to warehouse more than p cotton futures.

Based on the historical trend of five, ten and fifteen years (see chart), cotton prices are usually low in late July or early August.

At the bottom of the seasonal trend, prices appear near the end of July.

The bottom of the fifteen and ten year models occurred in the middle of August.

The five year seasonal trend is bottoming out in late July.

Seasonal price increases will last until the end of the year.

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< p > if we observe multiple data, first of all, < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp" > cotton price < /a > can be supported by potential price excessive expansion momentum; secondly, commercial traders also begin to show strong interest in bullish interest; finally, seasonal trend also shows that the bottom is usually formed at this time of year.

At present, this does not mean that prices must rise. If prices do rise, then it is necessary to see whether it can go back to the 2014 high and test the new resistance line.

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