{"id":105975,"date":"2017-05-13T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T20:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=105975"},"modified":"2017-05-13T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T22:16:49","slug":"commitment-of-traders-weekly-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/05\/commitment-of-traders-weekly-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: Specs go long the Euro. US Dollar, WTI Oil, Gold, Silver bets fall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a short summary and this week\u2019s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes.<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> Speculators continued to cut\u00a0their bullish bets of the US dollar<\/strong> for a third\u00a0straight week\u00a0while speculators went long the euro for the first time in three years<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> WTI Crude<\/strong> speculators again sharply reduced\u00a0bullish bets last week for a third\u00a0straight week<\/p>\n

–<\/strong> The 10-year note speculators<\/strong>\u00a0boosted bullish positions\u00a0for the third week out of the last four<\/p>\n

– Gold<\/strong> speculators sharply reduced their\u00a0bullish bets last week\u00a0for a second week in a row<\/p>

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– Silver<\/strong> bets continued to fall for a\u00a0fourth straight week following\u00a0a record high bullish position on April 11th<\/p>\n

– Copper<\/strong> speculative bets declined and are lower\u00a0for 12 out of the previous 14 weeks<\/p>\n

– Large S&P500<\/strong> speculative bets fell for 5th out of the last 6\u00a0weeks and to\u00a0the lowest level since 2014<\/p>\n

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FX Speculators pared US Dollar bullish bets for 3rd week, go long Euro<\/a><\/h2>\n

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US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $11.00 billion last week<\/h3>\n

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 continued to decrease\u00a0their bullish bets for the US dollar for a third straight week last week while speculators turned long the euro for the first time in three years.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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WTI Crude Oil Speculators sharply dropped bullish net positions for 3rd week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 328,751 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a decline\u00a0of -44,393 contracts from the previous weekly total.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gold Speculators sharply cut bullish net positions for 2nd straight week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of gold futures declined to a total net position of 150,006 contracts. This was a weekly shortfall\u00a0of -39,628 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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10 Year Treasury Note Speculators raised net positions for 3rd out of 4 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 229,119 contracts. This was a weekly gain\u00a0of 49,249 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Large S&P500 Speculators decreased net positions for 2nd week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of -5,400 contracts. This was a drop\u00a0of -3,479 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Silver Speculators sharply reduced bullish net positions, down for 4th week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 53,655 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly decrease\u00a0of -17,712 contracts from the previous totals.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Copper Speculators continued to reduce bullish net positions<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 8,081 contracts. This was a weekly fall of -10,457 contracts from the data of the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Article by CountingPips.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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).<\/em><\/p>\n

To learn more about this data please visit the CFTC website at http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/index.htm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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By CountingPips.com Here is a short summary and this week\u2019s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes. – Speculators continued to cut\u00a0their bullish bets of the US dollar for a third\u00a0straight week\u00a0while speculators went long the euro for the first time in three years – WTI Crude speculators again sharply reduced\u00a0bullish bets last […]<\/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-105975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105975","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=105975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106029,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105975\/revisions\/106029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}