By CountingPips.com
Here is a short summary and this week’s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes that was released on Monday due to the Thanksgiving’s Day holiday.
Speculators increased US Dollar bearish bets for 1st time in 8 weeks
WTI Crude Oil Speculators cut back positions from record high
10-Year Note Speculators pushed bullish net positions higher for 3rd straight week
Gold Speculators bullish net positions advanced for 3rd out of 4 weeks
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Large S&P500 Speculators pushed bets into deeper bearish level
Silver Speculators pulled back on bullish bets, still over +60,000 contracts
Copper Spec positions had slight uptick following 3 down weeks
The latest data for the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report, released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Monday due to the Thanksgiving’s Day holiday, showed that large traders and currency speculators raised their bearish bets for the US dollar last week. See full article
The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 577,078 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -19,388 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article
The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 201,827 contracts. This was a weekly advance of 6,743 contracts from the previous week. See full article
The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 111,080 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 36,244 contracts from the previous week. See full article
The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of -2,330 contracts. This was a decrease of -2,172 contracts from the reported data of the previous week. See full article
The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 67,641 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -1,532 contracts from the previous totals. See full article
The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 40,613 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 899 contracts from the data of the previous week. See full article
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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
