Hedge Funds Go Bullish on Bitcoin Futures - WSJ
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Most recent CFTC report showed leveraged funds with 1,142 long positions in bitcoin futures, more than double the 518 short positions they held Hedge funds have swung their bitcoin-futures bets to the bullish side for the first time, a marked turn around from a few weeks ago, according to figures released on Friday.
The data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission suggests a shift in sentiment among so-called “leveraged funds,” a category that includes hedge funds. Ever since late December, when the CFTC began publishing weekly reports on the new bitcoin-futures market run by Cboe Global Markets Inc., 