Wardle is thought to have a cut-off date after which he believes it will no longer be in the club's short-term interests to further delay signing new players but it is not thought to be imminent.
Analysts at Commerzbank noted that the cut-off date for the CFTC data does not take into account the continued slump in prices for the rest of week, so the situation may be different once newer data is released.
If only "Light Years" didn't read like a geeky mash note written to impress the editors of October magazine, the famously cerebral art journal that began publication in 1976 (not coincidentally the approximate cut-off date for the artists included).