COT Report: USD bets rise. Gold bets lowest in over 2 years. Crude, Silver, Copper bets down

July 21, 2018

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 Friday.

 


Forex Speculators raise US Dollar bets, drop Yen & Euro positions

US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $18.41 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 raised their bullish bets for the US dollar again this week while cutting their positions for the Japanese yen and the euro. See full article


WTI Crude Oil Speculators pared their bullish bets for 2nd week

The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 631,294 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -23,171 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article


Gold Speculators sharply drop bullish bets to lowest in over 2 years

The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 57,841 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -23,593 contracts from the previous week. See full article


10-Year Note Speculators added to their bearish net positions this week

The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -469,138 contracts. This was a weekly reduction of -29,990 contracts from the previous week. See full article


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Silver Speculators drop bullish bets to lowest in 9 weeks

The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 8,882 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -14,817 contracts from the previous totals. See full article


Copper Speculators pared their bullish net positions for 5th week

The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 9,113 contracts. This was a weekly shortfall of -5,070 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

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