By CountingPips.com
Here are this week’s links to the latest Commitment of Traders changes.
Forex Speculators push US Dollar bullish positions higher for 2nd week
US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $25.43 billion last week
The latest data for the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report, released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday, showed that large traders and currency speculators increased their bullish bets for the US dollar in the first week of the new year.
- The currencies whose speculative bets fell last week versus the dollar were the euro (-648 weekly change in contracts), British pound sterling (-7,643 contracts), Swiss franc (-3,348 contracts), Canadian dollar (-2,273 contracts), Australian dollar (-1,746 contracts), New Zealand dollar (-412 contracts) and the Mexican peso (-3,979 contracts).
WTI Crude Oil Speculators cut bullish net positions for 1st time in 6 weeks
The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 440074 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a change of -4858 contracts from the previous weekly total.
Gold Speculators dropped net bullish positions for 8th week
The large speculator contracts of gold futures declined to a total net position of 96550 contracts. This was a weekly change of -1793 contracts from the previous week.
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10 Year Treasury Note Speculators raised bearish positions for 2nd week
The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -344931 contracts. This was a weekly change of -3856 contracts from the previous week.
S&P500 Speculators trimmed net bullish positions for 3rd week
The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of 4628 contracts. This was a change of -84 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.
Silver Speculators raised net positions for 1st time in 3 weeks
The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 61291 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly change of 2380 contracts from the previous totals.
Copper Speculators reduced net bullish positions for 3rd week
The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 44484 contracts. This was a weekly change of -1279 contracts from the data of the previous week.
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The Commitment of Traders report data is published in raw form every Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and shows the futures positions of market participants as of the previous Tuesday (data is reported 3 days behind).
To learn more about this data please visit the CFTC website at http://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
