Soybeans (CBOT)
Soybeans positioning
Price series: Soybean futures (front month) · positions as of Tuesday Nov 3, 2026, published Friday Nov 6, 2026
This week · published Nov 6, 2026
Soybeans, week of Nov 3, 2026: Managed money sit at the 73rd percentile of their 3-year range. They cut 51,054 net long contracts on the week. 8-week signal: convergence — healthy downtrend.
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 downtrendSep 1, 2026 → Nov 3, 2026price -8.7% · net position -92,193 contracts
- Bullish divergenceAug 25, 2026 → Oct 20, 2026price -1.5% · net position +20,646 contracts
- Convergence — healthy uptrendJun 9, 2026 → Oct 13, 2026price +13.3% · net position +151,948 contracts
- Bearish divergenceMay 12, 2026 → Jul 21, 2026price +6.0% · net position -77,518 contracts
- Convergence — healthy downtrendApr 7, 2026 → Jun 30, 2026price -3.7% · net position -143,156 contracts
- Bearish divergenceMar 31, 2026 → May 26, 2026price +2.0% · net position -19,779 contracts
- Convergence — healthy uptrendDec 23, 2025 → Apr 7, 2026price +11.1% · net position +69,044 contracts
- Bearish divergenceDec 9, 2025 → Feb 10, 2026price +5.2% · net position -74,229 contracts
- Convergence — healthy downtrendNov 4, 2025 → Jan 27, 2026price -3.4% · net position -165,272 contracts
- Convergence — healthy uptrendSep 2, 2025 → Dec 9, 2025price +7.0% · net position +178,709 contracts
- Bullish divergenceAug 12, 2025 → Oct 7, 2025price -1.5% · net position +30,124 contracts
- Convergence — healthy uptrendAug 5, 2025 → Sep 30, 2025price +5.3% · net position +22,001 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.