{"id":111747,"date":"2017-08-26T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T17:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=111747"},"modified":"2017-08-26T14:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T18:35:39","slug":"cot-report-us-dollar-bets-more-bearish-gold-copper-silver-bets-higher-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/08\/cot-report-us-dollar-bets-more-bearish-gold-copper-silver-bets-higher-again\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: US Dollar bets more bearish. Gold, Copper, Silver bets higher again"},"content":{"rendered":"
August 26, 2017<\/div>
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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

–\u00a0US Dollar<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators added to their USD bearish bets, USD short for 6 straight weeks<\/p>\n

–\u00a0WTI Crude Oil<\/strong>\u00a0Speculator bets decline for 3rd week but remains over+400,000 net position<\/p>\n

–\u00a010-Year Note<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators bullish bets rose to back over +250,000 spec position<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Gold<\/strong>\u00a0spec bets continue to be upbeat and rise higher for 5th straight week<\/p>

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– Large\u00a0S&P500<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators raised their bearish bets for 2nd week<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Silver<\/strong>\u00a0Speculator bets rose for 5th consecutive week, highest since June 20th<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Copper<\/strong>\u00a0bets continue higher, up now for 6th week in a row<\/p>\n

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Currency Speculators increased US Dollar bearish bets last week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $-9.4 billion as of Tuesday<\/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 added to their bearish bets for the US dollar this week after reducing their bearishness the week before.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 445,448 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a slide of -18,025 contracts from the previous weekly total.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gold Speculators added to their bullish net positions for 5th week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 208,438 contracts. This was a weekly advance of 20,704 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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10-Year Note Speculators raised their bullish 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 261,245 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 60,653 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Large S&P500 Speculators raised their bearish 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 -3,469 contracts. This was a decrease of -1,557 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Silver Speculators boosted their bullish net positions for 5th week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 44,546 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly gain of 5,695 contracts from the previous totals.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Copper Speculators continue to advance bullish net positions higher<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 40,846 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 4,017 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. –\u00a0US Dollar\u00a0Speculators added to their USD bearish bets, USD short for 6 straight weeks –\u00a0WTI Crude Oil\u00a0Speculator bets decline for 3rd week but remains over+400,000 net position –\u00a010-Year Note\u00a0Speculators bullish bets rose to back over +250,000 […]<\/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-111747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111747","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=111747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111783,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111747\/revisions\/111783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}