Massil Begnan
Market strategist at Big Picture Trading; Macro Voices Trading Desk co-host; builder of cotsignal.com (COT positioning)
“In a single week, large specs in the S and P covered close to 150,000 contracts of short. That's the biggest one week swing anywhere on the board. And it takes them to the least short they've been all year... the crowd that would normally buy the dip is already in. So if the semis do start a profit taking cycle, there's less positioning support underneath.”
“On the product side. Gasoline speculators and commercials are actually light low 30s on their one year range reading. So the crack sped strength isn't a maxed out speculative trade. There's still room to run.”
Massil Begnan
One-line summary: COT-positioning analyst; tracked here for futures-positioning extremes (spec shorts/longs) that condition the crowding read on oil, equities, and FX.
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"In a single week, large specs in the S and P covered close to 150,000 contracts of short. That's the biggest one week swing anywhere on the board. And it takes them to the least short they've been all year... the crowd that would normally buy the dip is already in. So if the semis do start a profit taking cycle, there's less positioning support underneath." — 2026-07-02-podcast-macro-voices-macrovoices-539-rory-johnston-hormuz-crisis-is-it (2026-07-02)
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"On the product side. Gasoline speculators and commercials are actually light low 30s on their one year range reading. So the crack sped strength isn't a maxed out speculative trade. There's still room to run." — 2026-07-02-podcast-macro-voices-macrovoices-539-rory-johnston-hormuz-crisis-is-it (2026-07-02)
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