{"id":106834,"date":"2017-06-03T06:55:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T10:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=106834"},"modified":"2017-06-03T07:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T11:41:46","slug":"cot-report-us-dollar-bets-down-again-gold-silver-bets-rise-for-2nd-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/06\/cot-report-us-dollar-bets-down-again-gold-silver-bets-rise-for-2nd-week\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: US Dollar bets down again, Gold & Silver bets rise for 2nd week"},"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

– Speculators reduced bullish bets for the US dollar<\/strong> to a new low since September as USD bets have fallen 5 out of the last 6 weeks<\/p>\n

– WTI crude oil<\/strong> speculators slightly edged bets higher last week<\/p>\n

– The 10-year note<\/strong> speculators sharply decreased bullish bets after rising for 3 straight weeks<\/p>\n

– Gold<\/strong> speculative bets went higher for a 2nd week and by over +40,000 contracts in 2 weeks<\/p>

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– Silver<\/strong> bets rose again for 2nd week after declining for 5 straight weeks<\/p>\n

– Copper<\/strong> speculative bets fell for 1st time in 3\u00a0weeks and back under\u00a0the +10,000 level<\/p>\n

– Large S&P500<\/strong> speculative bets slid\u00a0for 4th out of the last 5 weeks, to lowest since 2012<\/p>\n

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FX Speculators cut US Dollar bets for 2nd week, to lowest since Sept<\/a><\/h2>\n

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US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $7.53 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 reduced their bullish bets for the US dollar last week to the lowest level since September 2016.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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WTI Crude Oil Speculators net bullish positions virtually unchanged last week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 373,755 contracts, according to data from last week. This was an advance of 766 contracts from the previous weekly total.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gold Speculators increased net bullish positions to highest in 4 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of gold futures advanced to a total net position of 167,090 contracts. This was a weekly rise\u00a0of 7,323 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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10 Year Treasury Note Speculators sharply cut back on net positions last week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 258,165 contracts. This was a weekly drop\u00a0of -104,336 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Large S&P500 Speculators reduced bullish 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 -8,085 contracts. This was a decrease\u00a0of -1,499 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Silver Speculator bullish positions rose again last week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 61,414 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly\u00a0gain of 10,241 contracts from the previous totals.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Copper Speculators decreased bullish net positions after 2 weeks of gains<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 9,644 contracts. This was a weekly fall\u00a0of -3,387 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 reduced bullish bets for the US dollar to a new low since September as USD bets have fallen 5 out of the last 6 weeks – WTI crude oil speculators slightly edged bets higher […]<\/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-106834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106834","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=106834"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106884,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106834\/revisions\/106884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}