COT Report: USD bets continue to rise. SP500-Mini, Gold, Silver & Copper bets drop

August 11, 2018

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Here is this week’s links (below) and short summaries to the latest Commitment of Traders changes that were released on Friday.

Currency Speculators continue boosting US Dollar bets higher

US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $22.02 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 boost their bets in favor of the US dollar this week while sharply cutting back on euro and British pound bets. See full article

WTI Crude Oil Speculators slightly reduced bullish net positions this week

The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 608,927 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -4,473 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article

Gold Speculators sharply drop their bullish bets again this week

The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 12,688 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -22,649 contracts from the previous week. See full article

10-Year Note Speculators trimmed their bearish bets from record high

The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -586,299 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 3,829 contracts from the previous week. See full article

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

Large stock market speculators cut back on their bullish net positions in the S&P500 Mini futures markets for a third consecutive week. See full article

Silver Speculators cut back again on their bullish bets this week

The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 4,341 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -1,523 contracts from the previous totals. See full article

Copper Speculators reduced their positions to lowest since Oct. 2016

The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 2,190 contracts. This was a weekly shortfall of -6,034 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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