COT Report: Speculators move huge in favor of USD. Crude, Gold, VIX bets fall more

June 23, 2018

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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.

 

Forex Speculators sharply raised US Dollar bets into new bullish position

US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $8.64 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 sharply boosted their bets for the US dollar into the first bullish aggregate position in over a year. See full article

WTI Crude Oil Speculators continued to reduce their bullish bets this week

The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 580,947 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -14,346 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article

Gold Speculators cut back on their bullish bets again this week

The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 96,512 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -23,728 contracts from the previous week. See full article

10-Year Note Speculators raised their bearish bets for 1st time in 3 weeks

The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -359,463 contracts. This was a weekly reduction of -23,469 contracts from the previous week. See full article

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S&P500 Mini Speculators upped their bullish bets for 3rd week

Speculative bets increased for the third straight week this week to the highest level in five weeks. See full article

Silver Speculators cut back on bullish net positions for 1st time in 7 weeks

The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 40,902 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -8,828 contracts from the previous totals. See full article

Copper Speculators sharply dropped bullish bets after 2 strong weeks

The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 56,311 contracts. This was a weekly shortfall of -14,226 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

 

 

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