{"id":9340,"date":"2018-08-03T20:54:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archerconsulting.com.br\/artigos\/acucar\/artigo9340\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T20:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T20:54:46","slug":"artigo9340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archerconsulting.com.br\/pt\/artigo9340\/","title":{"rendered":"UMA GRANADA NA M\u00c3O"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--:pt--><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Embora n&atilde;o tenha pego ningu&eacute;m de surpresa, a posi&ccedil;&atilde;o atual dos fundos n&atilde;o-indexados de 134.000 lotes vendidos, divulgada nesta sexta-feira, parece-me muito vulner&aacute;vel. Claro &eacute; que o pre&ccedil;o m&eacute;dio de venda dos fundos desde que a posi&ccedil;&atilde;o vendida come&ccedil;ou a ser constru&iacute;da permite aos seus gestores adicionar mais volume nos n&iacute;veis atuais, que acabam pressionando o mercado futuro, trazendo p&acirc;nico para os que estavam esperando dias melhores para fixar o a&ccedil;&uacute;car f&iacute;sico, e &ndash; naturalmente &ndash; mostrando um excelente desempenho na marca&ccedil;&atilde;o &agrave; mercado no final do m&ecirc;s passado.<\/p>\n<p>Quando me refiro &agrave; vulnerabilidade dessa enorme posi&ccedil;&atilde;o vendida &agrave; descoberto, &eacute; porque entendo que todas as not&iacute;cias baixistas que hoje povoam o universo a&ccedil;ucareiro mundial est&atilde;o devidamente inseridas nos pre&ccedil;os. Refletidas em toda sua extens&atilde;o e at&eacute; mesmo, como ocorre quase sempre, levando a curva de pre&ccedil;o demasiadamente longe do custo de produ&ccedil;&atilde;o. Ora, quem se importa com custo de produ&ccedil;&atilde;o, n&atilde;o &eacute; mesmo? Pois bem, hoje no mundo n&atilde;o tem ningu&eacute;m que consiga produzir a&ccedil;&uacute;car com margem de lucro, pagando os custos financeiros, se tomarmos por base o pre&ccedil;o de fechamento do contrato futuro em NY com vencimento para outubro de 2018, nesta sexta-feira, cotado a 10.85 centavos de d&oacute;lar por libra-peso. Ningu&eacute;m.<\/p>\n<p>A quest&atilde;o que vejo de maneira preocupante, se eu estivesse sentado na cadeira do gestor de um fundo especulativo n&atilde;o indexado, &eacute; se o potencial de lucro dessa gigantesca posi&ccedil;&atilde;o vendida &agrave; descoberto compensa substancialmente o risco inerente que ela tem se tivermos um problema de clim&aacute;tico, por exemplo. Vimos durante a semana que as temperaturas est&atilde;o muito altas nesse ver&atilde;o europeu e que a seca pode comprometer a safra de a&ccedil;&uacute;car Europeia. O mesmo vale para o Centro-Sul do Brasil. Nesta semana observamos diversas casas comerciais e respeitados consultores reduzindo suas estimativas de moagem. H&aacute; um ano apost&aacute;vamos em 585 milh&otilde;es de toneladas de cana para esta safra corrente, hoje 550 &eacute; um n&uacute;mero que todos parecem convergir. E ainda assim, o mercado n&atilde;o reage.<\/p>\n<p>At&eacute; as pedras sabem que o mercado futuro de a&ccedil;&uacute;car tem tido enorme dificuldade em recuperar os pre&ccedil;os por uma obviedade: tem mais gente querendo vender futuro do que comprar. Ora, nesse caso, por que os fundos precisariam se apressar em cobrir suas vendas, se tem mais gente (as usinas) precisando vender. Nessas horas, o gestor de carne-e-osso &ndash; sim, porque assumimos que as decis&otilde;es partem de b&iacute;pedes, e n&atilde;o por rob&ocirc;s alimentados por complicados algoritmos que pouco se lixam com discuss&otilde;es racionais e in&oacute;cuas feitas por n&oacute;s, humanos &ndash; aposta no p&acirc;nico e desce os n&iacute;veis de stop junto com o mercado. Por isso n&atilde;o s&atilde;o raros os picos de pre&ccedil;os que temos assistido em curto espa&ccedil;o de tempo.<\/p>\n<p>Um outro ponto que merece an&aacute;lise criteriosa &eacute; que no m&ecirc;s de julho o volume total de futuros negociados em NY foi de apenas 1,726,000 contratos, quase 2 milh&otilde;es de contratos a menos do que o m&ecirc;s de junho e a posi&ccedil;&atilde;o em aberto no per&iacute;odo cresceu 74,000 lotes e o mercado caiu 9%. No m&ecirc;s de junho, 3,720,000 contratos foram negociados, a posi&ccedil;&atilde;o em aberto caiu 72,000 lotes e o mercado caiu 8%. Em junho, provavelmente houve maior fixa&ccedil;&atilde;o de pre&ccedil;o por parte das usinas (queda da posi&ccedil;&atilde;o em aberto), mas em julho, com muito menos volume, os fundos foram capazes de mover o mercado para n&iacute;veis mais baixos, acrescentando novas vendas (aumento na posi&ccedil;&atilde;o em aberto). Com muito menos volume, eles conseguiram derrubar mais o mercado. O gestor de carne-e-osso n&atilde;o precisa ter pressa.<\/p>\n<p>Pois bem, nesta semana os fundos recompraram parte das posi&ccedil;&otilde;es (depois da ter&ccedil;a-feira), mas o mercado absorveu as recompras em fun&ccedil;&atilde;o das fixa&ccedil;&otilde;es de pre&ccedil;o por parte das usinas, que todo mundo sabe que est&atilde;o atrasadas. Vamos imaginar que o total fixado pelas usinas at&eacute; final do m&ecirc;s de julho (o n&uacute;mero da Archer Consulting dever&aacute; ser divulgado aos clientes na pr&oacute;xima semana) seja de 75%. Normalmente, o total de fixa&ccedil;&otilde;es somadas contra os vencimentos maio-julho-outubro somam 79% ficando 21% contra o mar&ccedil;o. Vamos assumir que 30% da posi&ccedil;&atilde;o de mar&ccedil;o j&aacute; esteja fixada, logo faltam ainda 70%. Se mar&ccedil;o, como dissemos, representa 21%, faltam 14.7%. Completando o racioc&iacute;nio: se ainda faltam &agrave;s usinas fixarem 25% da safra e se desse percentual 14.7% &eacute; do mar&ccedil;o, logo ainda faltam 10.3% a ser fixado contra o outubro. O outubro representa aproximadamente 39% da safra. Se ainda faltam 10.3%, conclui-se que as usinas ainda t&ecirc;m pouco mais de 25% do volume de outubro ainda a ser fixado. Isso deve dar uns 66,000 lotes.<\/p>\n<p>Acredito que esse n&uacute;mero &eacute; menor pois ele n&atilde;o computa as rolagens que muitas usinas fizeram passando o m&ecirc;s de precifica&ccedil;&atilde;o de outubro de 2018 para o mar&ccedil;o de 2019 com o objetivo de ganhar mais tempo para obter pre&ccedil;os melhores. Se nossa leitura estiver correta, e esse n&uacute;mero for realmente menor e no topo de tudo jogarmos os ingredientes provenientes de eventuais problemas clim&aacute;ticos, seja na Europa, ou mesmo no Centro-Sul, os fundos podem n&atilde;o encontrar mais as usinas dando-lhes liquidez na recompra e pode haver uma potencializa&ccedil;&atilde;o na rea&ccedil;&atilde;o de NY.<\/p>\n<p>Em resumo: vamos observar atentamente a movimenta&ccedil;&atilde;o do spread outubro de 18 com mar&ccedil;o de 19. Os gestores podem estar com uma granada na m&atilde;o. Se o pino for tirado (menor fixa&ccedil;&atilde;o por parte das usinas do que o esperado) pode explodir nas pr&oacute;prias m&atilde;os.<\/p>\n<p>Restam apenas duas vagas para o 30&ordm;. Curso Intensivo de Futuros, Op&ccedil;&otilde;es e Derivativos &ndash; Commodities Agr&iacute;colas que vai ocorrer nesta semana que se inicia, dias 7 (ter&ccedil;a), 8 (quarta) e 9 (quinta-feira) de agosto, em S&atilde;o Paulo - SP, no Hotel Wall Street, na Rua Itapeva. O pr&oacute;ximo vai ocorrer apenas em mar&ccedil;o de 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Caso voc&ecirc; queira receber nossos coment&aacute;rios semanais de a&ccedil;&uacute;car diretamente no seu e-mail basta cadastrar-se no nosso site acessando o link <a href=\"http:\/\/archerconsulting.com.br\/cadastro\/\">http:\/\/archerconsulting.com.br\/cadastro\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bom final de semana a todos.<\/p>\n<p>Arnaldo Luiz Corr&ecirc;a<\/p><!--:--><!--:en--><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although it didn&rsquo;t catch anyone by surprise, the current short position of the non-index funds of 134,000 lots released this Friday looks very vulnerable to me. What is clear is that the average sale price of the funds since the short position started to be built has allowed its managers to add more volume onto the current levels, which ends up pressuring the futures market, causing panic for those who were expecting better days to fix the physical sugar, and, of course, showing a great mark-to-market performance late last month.<\/p>\n<p>When I talk about the vulnerability of this huge short position it is because I see that all bearish news found in the world sugar universe today is duly inserted in the prices, reflected on all its extension and even, as it almost always happens, moving the price curve too far from the production cost. Well, who cares about production cost, right? Well, there is nobody, nobody in the world today who can produce sugar with a profit margin, paying for financial costs, if we take as a basis the closing price of the futures contract in NY for October\/2018, which this Friday closed at 10.85 cents per pound.<\/p>\n<p>The worrying issue to me, if I were sitting in the chair of a manager to a speculative non-index fund, is whether the profit potential of this gigantic short position substantially compensates for the inherent risk it has if we have a climate problem, for example. We saw during the week that the temperatures are very high in this European summer and that the drought can hurt the European sugar beet harvest. The same goes for the Center-South of Brazil. This week we saw several trade houses and respected consultants reducing their crushing estimates. A year ago we bet on 585 million tons of sugarcane for this current harvest; today 550 is a number everybody seems to agree upon. And even so, the market does not fight back.<\/p>\n<p>Even the rocks know that the futures sugar market has had great difficulty recovering prices for an obvious reason: there are more people wanting to sell futures than wanting to buy them. Well, in this case, why would the funds need to rush into covering their short position if there are more people (the mills) needing to sell. At these times, the real flesh and blood manager &ndash; yes, because we take it for granted that the decisions are made by bipeds and not by robots fed by complicated algorithms that couldn&rsquo;t care less about rational and innocuous discussions that we humans make &ndash; bets on the panic and lowers the stop levels on the market. That is why the price spikes we have seen in such a short period of time are not rare.<\/p>\n<p>Another point that deserves a thorough analysis is that in July the total volume of futures traded in NY was just 1,726,000 contracts, almost 2 million contracts less than in June and the open position over the period increased by 74,000 lots and the market fell 9%. In June, 3,720,000 contracts were traded, the open position fell 72,000 lots and the market fell another 8%. In June, there was a probably greater fixation of price by the mills (fall in the open position), but in July, with a lot less volume, the funds were able to move the market to lower levels, adding new shorts (increase in the open position). With a lot less volume, they were able to overthrow the market even further. The real flesh and blood manager doesn&rsquo;t need to rush.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this week the funds covered part of their short (after Tuesday), but the market absorbed the covering because of the price fixations by the mills, which everybody knows, are late. Let&rsquo;s imagine that the total volume laid down by the mills up until the end of July (Archer Consulting number should be released to the clients next week) is 75%. Usually, the total volume of fixations against May-July-October adds up to 79%, coming to 21% against March. Let&rsquo;s assume that 30% of the March position is already fixed, so there is still 70% missing. If March, as we said, represents 21%, there is 14.7% missing. In short, if the mills still have to fix 25% of the harvest and if out of this percentage, 14.7% is that of March, so there is still 10.3% missing to be fixed against October. October represents about 39% of the harvest. If there is still 10.3% missing, it can be concluded that the mills still have a little over 25% of the October volume to be fixed. This should come to about 66,000 lots.<\/p>\n<p>I do believe this number is smaller because it does not take into account the rollover that a lot of mills did shifting the month of fixation from October\/2018 to March\/2019 in order to gain more time to get better prices. If our reading is correct, and if this number is really smaller and if we throw the ingredients coming from possible climate problems on top of it all, be it in Europe or even in the Center-South, the funds might not see the mills supplying them with liquidity in an eventual short-covering anymore and there might be some maximization in the NY response.<\/p>\n<p>In short, let&rsquo;s keep a close look on the movement of the spread Oct\/Mar. The managers might have a grenade in the hand. If the pin is pulled out, that is, smaller-than-expected fixation by the mills, it can go off in their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>There are only two spots left for the 30<sup>th<\/sup> Intensive Course on Futures, Options and Derivatives &ndash; Agricultural Commodities which will be held this week, on August 7<sup>th<\/sup> (Tuesday), August 8<sup>th<\/sup> (Wednesday) and August 9<sup>th<\/sup> (Thursday) in S&atilde;o Paulo-SP at the Hotel Wall Street on Rua Itapeva. The next one will take place only in March\/2019.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get our weekly comments on sugar straight through your email, just sign up on our site by logging onto http:\/\/archerconsulting.com.br\/cadastro\/<\/p>\n<p>Have a nice weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Arnaldo Luiz Corr&ecirc;a<\/p><!--:-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Embora n&atilde;o tenha pego ningu&eacute;m de surpresa, a posi&ccedil;&atilde;o atual dos fundos n&atilde;o-indexados de 134.000 lotes vendidos, divulgada nesta sexta-feira, parece-me muito vulner&aacute;vel. 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