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Buying the Yen!

I'm buying the Yen! Most Yen pairs look weak so I started shorting them. First I did a USD/JPY and EUR/JPY shorts and now I added a GBP/JPY pending order to short.
My two open trades are up 79 pips for the USD/JPY sell and down 21 pips for the EUR/JPY sell. So far the moves have been anti-USD not so much pro-JPY.
Hoping to see this change in the coming days because XXX/JPY pairs seem ready to fall. My equity is at 123,000 right now, so a long way to go until a prize position this month.
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No major change in speculator positioning

According to the latest COT report (as of Nov 14th) there's no major changes in speculator positioning this week. This can be seen in the prices too as volatility has decreased markedly over the past few weeks.
Euro longs are down from 85,000 to 84,000. Cable shorts decreased from 9,000 to 4,000. Aussie longs are down slightly from +45,000 to +44,000.
In other currencies there are no large changes either. Japanese Yen shorts are up from 127,000 to 135,000 while Swiss Franc shorts increased from …
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USD Longs Slowly Increase

Speculators continue to add to their USD bet on futures. The latest COT report shows that the small but consistent move back to the Dollar continues.
Euro longs dropped from +84,000 to 72,000 this week. Yen shorts increase by 3,000 to -119,000. Aussie longs dropped from +57,000 last week to +52,000.
Canadian Dollar longs got sharply reduced to 58,000 from 72,000. In other currencies we don't see much change. Cable is still at +1,000 and NZD shorts moved from -1,000 to -6,000.
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