INVESTMENT MANAGERS have cut their position in Europe’s benchmark natural gas futures and options contract to the lowest since before the war between the United States and Iran started. Fund managers sold the equivalent of 51 terawatt-hours in the Dutch TTF contract over the seven days ending on June 19, the fastest sales for 15 months. Funds have sold in nine of the most recent twelve weeks, reducing their position by a total of 139 TWh since March 27. The remaining position has been cut to 184 TWh from 323 TWh at the end of March as traders become more confident about refilling storage ahead of next winter as the Strait of Hormuz re-opens:
Oil bears bet Hormuz crisis is mostly over
Investors have cut their position in Brent again to the lowest for eighteen weeks amid increasing confidence at least some oil exports will resume through the Strait of Hormuz despite an increasingly fragile ceasefire.
The United States has begun to encourage some tankers to transit the Strait by offering air cover and attacking shore-based radars, missile batteries and drone launch sites on Iran’s side of the waterway.
The U.S. government appears to be pursuing a mixed strategy of bombing-while-negotiating to pressure Iran into accepting a deal while at the same time degrading Iran’s ability to threaten shipping in case the talks fail.
Hedge funds and other money managers sold the equivalent of another 26 million barrels in the ICE Brent crude futures and options contract over the seven days ending on June 2.
Fund managers have sold Brent in eight of the most recent nine weeks, reducing their combined position by a total of 177 million barrels since the end of March.
As a result, funds held a mildly bullish net position of 253 million barrels (64th percentile for all weeks since 2011) down from an extremely bullish 429 million (92nd percentile) on March 31.
Short positions betting on a further fall in Brent prices have more than tripled to 140 million barrels from just 40 million at the end of March.
Shorts are at the highest since mid-January, shortly after the United States captured Venezuela’s leader and before tensions with Iran started to intensify.
Despite the lack of public progress in reaching a negotiated end to the war, and repeated breaches of the ceasefire by both countries, funds are increasingly confident oil exports will resume.
Stocks of crude and refined fuels in the United States and the rest of the world are depleting rapidly but fund managers are increasingly behaving as if the draw down will end soon with much more oil flowing through the Strait.
Reflecting that expectation, inflation-adjusted front-month Brent futures have retreated to an average of $95 so far in June (55th percentile for all months since 2010) from $104 in May (62nd percentile).
Brent positions and prices are behaving as if the oil shock is mostly over.
[CHARTBOOK] Strait of Hormuz closure and the oil shock of 2026 - slides for a presentation to the British Institute of Energy Economics: https://t.co/yL3UeeaHjW
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