{"id":104874,"date":"2017-04-15T15:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=104874"},"modified":"2017-04-15T15:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T19:28:21","slug":"cot-report-crude-gold-silver-bets-advance-usd-bullish-bets-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/04\/cot-report-crude-gold-silver-bets-advance-usd-bullish-bets-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: Crude, Gold, Silver bets advance, USD bullish bets rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-62114946\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">April 15, 2017<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><b>By CountingPips.com<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here is a short summary and this week\u2019s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This week&#8217;s COT results showed that Speculators just slightly raised their\u00a0bullish bets of the US dollar last week after two weeks of declining bets. USD bets remain in tight range of between $13.01 billion (low) and $18.47 (high).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>WTI Crude speculators sharply boosted bullish bets for the second week and over the +400,000 contract level for a second straight week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The 10-year note speculators added to their bearish bets for the first time in six weeks. Speculators had previously pushed bearish bets to a record high short position on February 28th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gold speculators sharply increased their bullish bets higher for a 4th week while Silver bets gained again for a third week and to a new record high bullish position.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Copper saw speculative bets continue lower for the 9th out of the last 10 weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>S&amp;P500 speculators reduced their bullish bets in S&amp;P500 futures for a second week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/fx-speculators-slightly-raised-us-dollar-bullish-bets-after-2-down-weeks\/\">FX Speculators slightly raised US Dollar bullish bets after 2 down weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Reuters-Spec-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104875\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Reuters-Spec-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $15.04 billion last week<\/h3>\n<p>The latest data for the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report, released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1670754428\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Friday<\/span><\/span>, showed that large traders and currency speculators slightly added to\u00a0their bullish bets for the US dollar last week following two weekly declines.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/fx-speculators-slightly-raised-us-dollar-bullish-bets-after-2-down-weeks\/\"><u>See full article<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-advanced-bullish-net-positions-for-2nd-week\/\">WTI Crude Oil Speculators advanced bullish net positions for 2nd week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WTI-Specs-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104876\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WTI-Specs-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 437043 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a change of 28661 contracts from the previous weekly total.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-advanced-bullish-net-positions-for-2nd-week\/\"><u>See full article<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/gold-speculators-sharply-raised-bullish-net-positions-for-4th-week\/\">Gold Speculators sharply raised bullish net positions for 4th week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GOLD-Specs-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104877\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/GOLD-Specs-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of gold futures advanced to a total net position of 172666 contracts. This was a weekly change of 17230 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/gold-speculators-sharply-raised-bullish-net-positions-for-4th-week\/\"><u>See full article<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/10-year-treasury-note-speculators-slightly-raised-bearish-net-positions\/\">10 Year Treasury Note Speculators slightly raised bearish net positions<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/TY-Specs-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104878\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/TY-Specs-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -64529 contracts. This was a weekly change of -8763 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/10-year-treasury-note-speculators-slightly-raised-bearish-net-positions\/\"><u>See full article<\/u><\/a><\/p><div id=\"inves-2724224861\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/sp500-speculators-decreased-their-bullish-net-positions-for-2nd-week\/\">S&amp;P500 Speculators decreased their bullish net positions for 2nd week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SP500-Specs-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104879\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/SP500-Specs-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of S&amp;P 500 futures totaled a net position of 4567 contracts. This was a change of -2815 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/sp500-speculators-decreased-their-bullish-net-positions-for-2nd-week\/\"><u>See full article<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/silver-speculators-pushed-bullish-net-positions-to-new-record-high\/\">Silver Speculators pushed bullish net positions to new record high<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Silver-Specs-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104880\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Silver-Specs-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 105515 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly change of 4133 contracts from the previous totals.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/silver-speculators-pushed-bullish-net-positions-to-new-record-high\/\"><u>See full article<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/copper-speculators-trim-bullish-net-positions-to-lowest-level-in-3-weeks\/\">Copper Speculators trim bullish net positions to lowest level in 3 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Copper-Specs-Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-104881\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Copper-Specs-Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 25845 contracts. This was a weekly change of -1023 contracts from the data of the previous week.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2017\/04\/copper-speculators-trim-bullish-net-positions-to-lowest-level-in-3-weeks\/\"><u>See full article<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Article by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/CountingPips.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1492365318339000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGUg32YXbHidrQ21K4FaE99VGHTwg\">CountingPips.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Commitment of Traders report data is published in raw form every <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1670754435\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Friday<\/span><\/span> by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and shows the futures positions of market participants as of the previous <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1670754436\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Tuesday<\/span><\/span> (data is reported 3 days behind).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>To learn more about this data please visit the CFTC website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/index.htm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1492365318339000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFhQ5xEEFPuBgDrxrECe5JFDtrvtg\">http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/<wbr \/>MarketReports\/<wbr \/>CommitmentsofTraders\/index.htm<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CountingPips.com Here is a short summary and this week\u2019s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes. This week&#8217;s COT results showed that Speculators just slightly raised their\u00a0bullish bets of the US dollar last week after two weeks of declining bets. USD bets remain in tight range of between $13.01 billion (low) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104887,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104874\/revisions\/104887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}