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Gold price: Hedge funds, ETF investors show buying fatigue

Gold price: Hedge funds, ETF investors show buying fatigue

On Monday gold continued to tread water with December futures trading on the Comex market in New York exchanging hands at $1,339.50 an ounce in European trade, down a couple of dollars from Friday's close.

Gold touched a two-year high in July around $1,380 an ounce and year to date the metal is up 26% or close to $280 an ounce, one of its best annual performances since 1980. But there are signs that buying fatigue has set in for both hedge funds active on the derivatives market and institutional and retail buyers of physically-backed gold exchange traded funds.

Bullish bets are down 24% from the July high and the lowest net position since May's correction, when gold came close to falling through the $1,200 an ounce level
Hedge funds dramatically raised bearish bets on gold during the final months of 2015 pushing the overall market into a net short position – bets that gold could be bought back at a lower price in the future – for the first time since at least 2006, when government first started to collect the data.

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