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Cotton futures ended down on Tuesday near a 3-year low for the third consecutive session in the face of bumper supplies and a weak global economic outlook, said brokers who expected the market to remain on the defensive.
"Cotton still suffers from too much supply and the fear of Europe," said Keith Brown, president of commodity firm Keith Brown and Co in Moultrie, Georgia.
"I just want to sit on my money," he said of the attitude of most investors spooked by the deepening debt crisis in Europe and a downbeat outlook for both the United States and China, the world's top two economies. The euro zone debt crisis showed signs of escalating after Spain said it was being shut out of credit markets.
The now benchmark December cotton contract on ICE Futures US fell 1.70 cents, or 2.5 percent, to close at 65.36 cents per lb, dealing between 65.26 and 67.69 cents. It was an inside day as that trading range held within Monday's 64.61 to 67.95 cents band.It was the lowest close for the third position cotton contract since early October 2009, Thomson Reuters data showed.
Spot July cotton lost 1.64 cents to finish at 66.89 cents a lb, moving from 66.79 to 69.85 cents Cotton's 14-day relative strength index reading, an indicator of a market's being oversold or overbought, stood at 19 versus 21 on Monday. A reading of 30 or lower means the market is oversold and one of 70 or above indicates a market is overbought. "The market is so heavily oversold, but I don't think it really matters to the funds," a dealer said. Some mill fixation buying was seen at the market's low, but most commercials shied away in anticipation of lower values.
Open interest, an indicator of investor interest, amounted to 203,711 lots as of June 4, the loftiest since February 10, 2011, when open interest was at 220,096 lots, the ICE data showed. "Prices are falling and open interest is going up. A lot of short positions are being added to cotton," a dealer said of investor bets for lower prices. Volume on Tuesday reached almost 36,000 lots, almost 50 percent more than the 30-day norm, Thomson Reuters data showed.

Copyright Reuters, 2012

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