By CountingPips.com
Here is a short summary and this week’s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes.
– US Dollar Speculators trimmed their USD bearish bets, 1st gain in 8 weeks
– WTI Crude Oil Speculator bets fall for 2nd week, still over+400,000 net position
– 10-Year Note Speculators bullish bets fell to lowest since May
– Gold bets continued to strongly rise for 4th straight week
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– Large S&P500 Speculators added to their bearish bets
– Silver Speculator bets rose for 4th week, highest in 9 weeks
– Copper bets go higher for 5th week, new high level since February 28th
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 raised their bullish bets for the US dollar last week. See full article
The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 463,473 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a slide of -17,156 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article
The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 187,734 contracts. This was a weekly advance of 38,897 contracts from the previous week. See full article
The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 200,592 contracts. This was a weekly reduction of -29,244 contracts from the previous week. See full article
The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of -1,912 contracts. This was a decrease of -1,780 contracts from the reported data of the previous week. See full article
The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 38,851 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly gain of 4,987 contracts from the previous totals. See full article
The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 36,829 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 3,693 contracts from the data of the previous week. See full article
Article by CountingPips.com
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
