Friday's Positioning Report Is Measured at Last Night's Close. Last Night's Close Contains None of the Day.
The CFTC measures positions at the Tuesday close and publishes on Friday.
Tuesday was 13 October - a day that ran 158.65 to 157.83, eighty-two pips with a fifty-four-pip reversal inside it, and closed at 158.33, fifty pips above its own low. Friday's 19:30 UTC report will record the yen market at the one instant when almost nothing that happened was still visible. The ten-year did the same: read at 5.20, 5.1937 and about 5.19 at midday with three different stated changes, it closed at 5.2168 - 1.68 to 2.68 basis points above all three, and 0.32 of a basis point below the last value the Federal Reserve actually measured, on 8 October. The issuer still has no observation for 9, 12 or 13 October. Plus why Friday settles nothing about the four-way yen split, and a fifth reader with the wrong month and the opposite sign.