COT Report: USD bets continue strength. Crude, VIX & Gold bets fall this week

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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.

• WTI Crude Oil Speculators cut back on bullish net positions for 4th week
• Currency Speculators continue to ease US Dollar bearish positions
• 10-Year Note Speculators pulled back on bearish bets for 3rd week
• Eurodollar Speculators sharply reduced their bearish net positions this week
• Bitcoin Speculators increased bearish net positions for 2nd week
• Gold Speculators reduced bullish bets for 3rd time out of last 4 weeks
• S&P500 Mini Speculators boosted bullish net positions this week
• Silver Speculators edged their bets back into small bullish position
• VIX Speculators cut their bets into a new bearish position
• Copper Speculators lifted bullish net positions after 2 down weeks

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Currency Speculators continue to ease US Dollar bearish positions

US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $-9.82 billion as of Tuesday

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 continued to trim their aggregate bearish bets of the US dollar this week and raised their positions for the dollar against most of the major currencies. See full article

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WTI Crude Oil Speculators cut back on bullish net positions for 4th week

The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 644,444 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -35,484 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article

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Gold Speculators reduced bullish bets for 3rd time out of last 4 weeks

The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 92,443 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -14,997 contracts from the previous week. See full article

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10-Year Note Speculators pulled back on bearish bets for 3rd week

The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -381,922 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 26,707 contracts from the previous week. See full article

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S&P500 Mini Speculators boosted bullish net positions this week

SP500 mini speculative positions rebounded this week after falling by -66,878 contracts in the previous week. See full article

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Silver Speculators edged their bets back into small bullish position

The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 658 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly gain of 779 contracts from the previous totals. See full article

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Copper Speculators lifted bullish net positions after 2 down weeks

The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 36,355 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 2,903 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