Before I get into this post, I do apologize for my lack of persistence on this blog. I plan to post once a week about my thoughts on "the market", and where I think it may be heading. For this post, it will be a general market update on investor/trader positioning. The following posts will be more centered around volatility updates and forecasts. Large Player Positioning on the S&P 500 Futures Contracts (ES) Like pervious posts, my data comes from the CME group and its analysis on S&P 500 futures contracts, the 'ES'. Further, we will continue to focus on data originating from "Dealers/Intermediaries", which are essentially market-makers within this derivative contract. The reason why I will continue to focus on positioning numbers from market-makers is because they must be able to play both sides of a market, long or short, and to be able to quickly shift their long or short bias if new HFT information is presented to them. There are a plethora of o