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
- WTI Crude Oil Speculators pared their bullish bets for 2nd week
- 10-Year Note Speculators added to their bearish net positions this week
- Bitcoin Speculators boosted bearish net positions to highest in 5 weeks
- Gold Speculators sharply drop bullish bets to lowest in over 2 years
- S&P500 Mini Speculators advanced their bullish bets again this week
- Eurodollar Speculators edged their bearish net positions lower this week
- VIX Speculators sharply added to bearish bets for 2nd week
- Silver Speculators drop bullish bets to lowest in 9 weeks
- Copper Speculators pared their bullish net positions for 5th week
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
