Cotton Rallying the Limit on Monday

Austin Schroeder Barchart Mon Sep 16, 11:58AM CDT
Closeup of Cotton Plant

Cotton futures are posting limit gains of 300 points across the front months on Monday. The dollar index is down 485 points so far, with crude oil futures up just $1.11/barrel. 

The large managed money speculators were adding 6,827 contracts to their net short position as of 9/10 to 49,492 contracts.

The Seam ported 546 online cash cotton bale sales on Thursday, averaging 62.64 cents/lb. ICE cotton stocks were unchanged on September 13, leaving 265 bales of cert stocks. The Cotlook A Index was up 85 points on September 13 at 81.95 cents/lb. The USDA Adjusted World Price (AWP) was slashed by 127 points on Thursday afternoon 56 cents/lb. It is good through next Thursday.

Dec 24 Cotton  is at 72.82, up 300 points,

Mar 25 Cotton  is at 74.24, up 300 points,

May 25 Cotton  is at 75.22, up 281 points


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