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June 8, 2026

Futures Global Bonds CTA Market Update

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This report outlines current positioning for the systematic CTA community in global bond markets, noting a trend of small-size short covering. Future flows are highly dependent on global rate trends triggering signal flips.

Key Takeaways

  • 1.Systematic trend-following community is performing small-size short covering with signals largely in neutral territory.
  • 2.A downward trend in global rates could trigger a broad flip in signals, leading to material duration demand from the systematic community.

Table of Contents

  • Thoughts From the Desk
  • Conditional Forecasts by Country/Region
  • Global Forecasts and Breakdown by Country Position
  • Historical Projections, Magnitudes
  • Global - 1-Week Baseline Historical Projections
  • 1-Week Hist. Flat Projs
  • Simulated Historical Net Length
  • Estimated Bond CTA/Trend Positioning
  • Realized Flows by Market
  • Positioning Comparison
  • Momentum Thresholds by Market

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