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Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Report
10 Year Treasuries: Large trader and speculator positions for 10-year treasury notes in the futures markets fell last week to an overall small bearish position. 10-year treasury contracts decreased to a total net position of -20,096 total contracts in the data reported for August 6th. This is a decline of -31,999 contracts from the previous week’s total of +11,903 net contracts on July 30th. In the same timeframe, the yield on the 10 Year treasury note rose from 2.63 on Tuesday July 30th to 2.67 on Tuesday August 6th, according to US Treasury data.
Last 6 Weeks of Large Trader Positions
| Date | Net Large Specs | Weekly Change |
| 07/02/2013 | -22917 | -55928 |
| 07/09/2013 | -47110 | -24193 |
| 07/16/2013 | 17735 | 64845 |
| 07/23/2013 | -32312 | -50047 |
| 07/30/2013 | 11903 | 44215 |
| 08/06/2013 | -20096 | -31999 |
*COT explanation: The weekly cot report summarizes the total trader positions for open contracts in the futures trading 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).
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