{"id":4470,"date":"2026-09-20T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/cotton-bulls-head-into-the-weekend-with-their-tails-tucked\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T10:08:11","slug":"cotton-bulls-head-into-the-weekend-with-their-tails-tucked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/cotton-bulls-head-into-the-weekend-with-their-tails-tucked\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Bulls Head into the Weekend with Their Tails Tucked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Cotton futures were down 79 to 103 points across the front months on Friday, as December was down 491 points on the week. Crude oil was back down $2.38 per barrel on the session, with the US dollar index down $0.040.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CFTC Commitment of Traders data showed managed money trimming back 2,267 contracts from their net long position in the week of September 15, taking it to 97,903 contracts.<\/p>\n<p>            <span>Don\u2019t Miss a Day: <\/span><br \/>\n        From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart\u2019s best-in-class commodity analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Export Sales from this week shows 4.5 million RB of cotton export commitments as of 9\/10, 13% ahead of the 5-year average. That is also 39% of the USDA export forecast and behind the 48% average pace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Cotlook A index was down 25 points on September 17 at 94.35. ICE certified cotton stocks were steady on 9\/17, with the certified stocks level at 36,617 bales.\u00a0The Adjusted World Price was back down 59 points on Thursday to 68.92 cents\/lb.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 26 Cotton\u00a0\u00a0closed at 77.38, down 103 points,<\/p>\n<p>Dec 26 Cotton\u00a0\u00a0closed at 81.15, down 102 points,<\/p>\n<p>Mar 27 Cotton\u00a0\u00a0closed at 83.79, down 102 points<\/p>\n<p>    On the date of publication,<\/p>\n<p>    Austin Schroeder<\/p>\n<p>            did not have (either directly or indirectly) positions in any of the securities mentioned in this article. All information and data in this article is solely for informational purposes.<\/p>\n<p>    For more information please view the Barchart Disclosure Policy<\/p>\n<p>    here.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n    More news from Barchart\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cotton futures were down 79 to 103 points across the front months on Friday, as December was down 491 points on the week. Crude oil was back down $2.38 per barrel on the session, with the US dollar index down $0.040.\u00a0 CFTC Commitment of Traders data showed managed money trimming back 2,267 contracts from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartinvestingschronicle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}