Investors can establish long positions in securities such as stocks, mutual funds, or currencies, or even in derivatives such as options and futures. Holding a long position is a bullish view .

Stocks: Traders are still net long VIX futures and options, the total net speculative position in e-mini US equity index futures and options is net long $110 billion.

For example, if an individual believed that the price of Pepsi stock was going to go up, they could initiate a long call by buying a call option for 100 shares of Pepsi with a strike price equal ...

Gold speculators cut net long positions by 13,605 contracts to 201,962 in the week ending February 18, Reuters reported. The march of gold futures to $3,000/oz may be fading, Commerzbank analysts ...

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Commodity Futures Trading Commission data for the week to April 30 show that asset managers' aggregate long position in two-, five- and 10-year Treasury futures rose to 8.15 million contracts ...

Speculators' long position in arabica coffee futures increased to 22,827 in the week to Feb. 2. They also increased a bullish bet in cocoa by 1,877 contracts to 12,255 contracts, CFTC said.

One class of investors has more than doubled the value of the long positions it holds in Bitcoin futures contracts this month.Institutions settle in for the long term. According to fresh data from ...