Cotton continued to consolidate lower this week but did finish the week with a positive candlestick on the chart. As we are seeing some scale down demand and fixation orders coming in on this correction, rally towards high of the recent trading range will hold off further demand. Cotton traded higher on a weaker dollar and kept the strength going on a relatively low volume day. Both May and July contracts settled around 170 points higher. Cert stocks keep growing and are now over 700k including waiting review. Technically we could be range bound trading drifting lower from here.

Total open interest in futures rose on market consolidation by just under 3k contracts during the past week, and both specs and commercials increased their holdings in cotton. On a netted balance, specs went longer by 3.6k contracts, while commercials got shorter by 3.8k contracts in futures and options combined. Index traders kept their positions unchanged.