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Here is a short summary and this week’s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes that was released on Friday.
Speculators raised their US Dollar bearish bets for 2nd week
WTI Crude Oil Speculators boost positions to new record high
10-Year Note Speculators keep pushing bullish net positions higher for 4th straight week
Gold Speculators bullish net positions sharply raised for 2nd week
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Large S&P500 Speculators pushed bets into a new bullish level
Silver Speculators decreased bullish bets for 2nd week, now under +60,000 contracts
Copper Spec positions saw increase in bullish bets again this 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 reduced their bets for the US dollar this week. See full article
The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 609,833 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a lift of 32,755 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article
The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 224,417 contracts. This was a weekly advance of 22,590 contracts from the previous week. See full article
The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 123,936 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 12,856 contracts from the previous week. See full article
The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of 292 contracts. This was a rise of 2,622 contracts from the reported data of the previous week. See full article
The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 58,782 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -8,859 contracts from the previous totals. See full article
The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 43,923 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 3,310 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
