Commitment of Traders Weekly Roundup November 29 2016: Speculator Positions

By CountingPips.com

Forex Speculators pushed US Dollar bullish positions higher for 2nd week

US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $24.82 billion last week

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 increased their bullish bets in favor of the US dollar last week for a second consecutive week.

The major currency that improved against the US dollar last week was just the euro (+108 weekly change in contracts).

The currencies whose speculative bets declined last week versus the dollar were the Japanese yen (-11,169 contracts), Australian dollar (-9,748 contracts), Mexican peso (-6,186 contracts), British pound sterling (-3,817 contracts), Swiss franc (-1,434 contracts), New Zealand dollar (-1,339 contracts) and the Canadian dollar (-1,114 contracts).

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WTI Crude Oil Speculators raised bets for first time in 7 weeks last week

The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 287881 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a change of 11561 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article

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Gold Speculators drop bets for 3rd week, to lowest level since February

The large speculator contracts of gold futures declined to a total net position of 151570 contracts. This was a weekly change of -15515 contracts from the previous week. See full article

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10 Year Treasury Note Speculators sharply dropped their net positions last week

The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -96267 contracts. This was a weekly change of -268915 contracts from the previous week. See full article

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S&P500 Speculators increased their net positions after 2 down weeks

The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of 8997 contracts. This was a change of 3460 contracts from the reported data of the previous week. See full article

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Silver Speculators cut back on bullish net positions for 3rd week

The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 59040 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly change of -1127 contracts from the previous totals. See full article

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Copper Speculators boost net bullish positions higher for 5th week

The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 53361 contracts. This was a weekly change of 7049 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