Live cattle (CME)
Live Cattle positioning
Price series: Live cattle futures (front month) · positions as of Tuesday Nov 3, 2026, published Friday Nov 6, 2026
This week · published Nov 6, 2026
Live Cattle, week of Nov 3, 2026: Managed money sit at the 25th percentile of their 3-year range. They cut 6,882 net long contracts on the week. 8-week signal: no signal.
Signal log — Managed money
Every past signal in this market, and what price did afterwards.
Every rolling 8-week window classified as a bullish or bearish divergence, or as convergence where price and positioning agree. Price change is in percent; net change is in contracts.
Each row covers one stretch of weekly reports: the % is the price change over that stretch, the net figure is the change in the group's net position, in contracts.
- Convergence — healthy uptrendSep 1, 2026 → Oct 27, 2026price +5.2% · net position +7,722 contracts
- Bearish divergenceAug 18, 2026 → Oct 20, 2026price +3.1% · net position -11,865 contracts
- Convergence — healthy downtrendMay 5, 2026 → Sep 29, 2026price -12.1% · net position -84,825 contracts
- Bearish divergenceApr 21, 2026 → Jun 23, 2026price +3.7% · net position -7,233 contracts
- Convergence — healthy uptrendNov 18, 2025 → May 19, 2026price +16.3% · net position +31,720 contracts
- Bearish divergenceNov 4, 2025 → Jan 6, 2026price +5.6% · net position -13,773 contracts
- Convergence — healthy downtrendSep 9, 2025 → Dec 23, 2025price -0.1% · net position -33,958 contracts
- Bearish divergenceJun 10, 2025 → Aug 19, 2025price +6.6% · net position -11,239 contracts
- Convergence — healthy uptrendApr 8, 2025 → Jun 24, 2025price +11.0% · net position +9,936 contracts
- Bearish divergenceMar 25, 2025 → May 27, 2025price +3.2% · net position -12,941 contracts
- Convergence — healthy uptrendMar 4, 2025 → May 13, 2025price +6.0% · net position +17,365 contracts
- Bearish divergenceDec 24, 2024 → Apr 22, 2025price +10.7% · net position -16,743 contracts
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Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders — positions as of Tuesday, published the following Friday. All position figures are futures contracts unless the % of open interest view is selected. Positioning is a sentiment tool, not a timing signal. Not investment advice.