{"id":33840,"date":"2013-02-12T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33840"},"modified":"2013-02-12T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:10:37","slug":"hedge-fund-long-positions-in-sp-500-on-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2013\/hedge-fund-long-positions-in-sp-500-on-rise.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge-fund long positions in S&#038;P 500 on rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch &#8211; Hedge-fund long positions in the S&amp;P 500 Index\u00a0rose in the past week, once again crowding long positions for speculators, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch note Monday. Large speculators bought $11.5 billion in S&amp;P 500 futures in the week ending Feb. 5, compared with $8 billion in the previous week, a 44% rise, according to the note, which gathered Commitment of Traders data.<\/p>\n<p>B. of A. Merrill Lynch said the S&amp;P 500 is &#8220;on target to test resistance near 1,550,&#8221; but will likely sell off during February with support levels at 1,470 to 1,480, then 1,455. The S&amp;P 500 closed down 0.92 point, or less than 0.1%, at 1,517.01 Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.marketwatch.com\/2013-02-11\/markets\/37036335_1_long-positions-s-p-hedge-fund\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MarketWatch &#8211; Hedge-fund long positions in the S&amp;P 500 Index\u00a0rose in the past week, once again crowding long positions for speculators, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch note Monday. Large speculators bought $11.5 billion in S&amp;P 500 futures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33841,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33840\/revisions\/33841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}