July 20th – By CountingPips.com – Receive our weekly COT Reports by Email
Silver Non-Commercial Speculator Positions:
Large precious metals speculators sharply increased their bullish net positions in the Silver futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
The non-commercial futures contracts of Silver futures, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of 37,425 contracts in the data reported through Tuesday July 16th. This was a weekly increase of 12,274 net contracts from the previous week which had a total of 25,151 net contracts.
The week’s net position was the result of the gross bullish position (longs) increasing by 4,369 contracts (to a weekly total of 100,449 contracts) while the gross bearish position (shorts) declined by -7,905 contracts for the week (to a total of 63,024 contracts).
Large speculators had decreased their bullish bets in the previous two weeks before this week’s rebound. The Silver speculative bets have been on a strong uptrend since June 4th that has taken the net position from bearish territory (-8,443 contracts) to a bullish position of more than +37,000 net contracts. The current standing is now at the highest level since February of this year.
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Silver Commercial Positions:
The commercial traders position, hedgers or traders engaged in buying and selling for business purposes, totaled a net position of -59,357 contracts on the week. This was a weekly drop of -14,080 contracts from the total net of -45,277 contracts reported the previous week.
Silver Futures:
Over the same weekly reporting time-frame, from Tuesday to Tuesday, the Silver Futures (Front Month) closed at approximately $1567.80 which was an uptick of $53.10 from the previous close of $1514.70, according to unofficial market data.
*COT Report: The COT data, released weekly to the public each Friday, is updated through the most recent Tuesday (data is 3 days old) and shows a quick view of how large speculators or non-commercials (for-profit traders) as well as the commercial traders (hedgers & traders for business purposes) were positioned in the futures markets.
The CFTC categorizes trader positions according to commercial hedgers (traders who use futures contracts for hedging as part of the business), non-commercials (large traders who speculate to realize trading profits) and nonreportable traders (usually small traders/speculators).
Find CFTC criteria here: (http://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/ExplanatoryNotes/index.htm).
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