RE:Rise, CFTC Data Show In a way this is good news but I would not read anything into it yet. This is just a way for them to hedge their bet against shorting any or all of the dividend paying oil stocks. I see continuing pressure on all of these stocks until the end of tax loss selling...probably around December 22 or 23. I took a quarter position @ $35. Now it looks like an eighth of a position. I will be buying more at the end of the year...hopefully not another eight of a position.