{"id":113435,"date":"2017-09-23T14:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=113435"},"modified":"2017-09-23T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T19:21:50","slug":"cot-report-usd-bets-more-bearish-crude-bets-spike-while-metals-bet-cool-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/09\/cot-report-usd-bets-more-bearish-crude-bets-spike-while-metals-bet-cool-off\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: USD bets more bearish. Crude bets spike while Metals bets cool off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By CountingPips.com\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Get our weekly COT Reports by Email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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

– US Dollar<\/strong> Speculators increased USD bearish bets for 5th week<\/p>\n

– WTI Crude Oil<\/strong> Speculator bets rebounded sharply this week<\/p>\n

– 10-Year Note<\/strong> Speculators bullish bets were up for a 2nd week<\/p>\n

– Gold<\/strong> bets dropped sharply after 8 weeks of gains<\/p>

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– Large S&P500<\/strong> Speculators bets turned bullish this week<\/p>\n

– Silver<\/strong> Speculator bets cooled off after 8 weeks of gains<\/p>\n

– Copper<\/strong> Speculators decreased bets for a 2nd straight week<\/p>\n

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Forex Speculators continued to raise bearish US Dollar positions this week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $-13.19 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 continued to increase their bearish bets against the US dollar this week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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WTI Crude Oil Speculators sharply boosted bullish net positions this week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 418,074 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a lift of 43,594 contracts from the previous weekly total.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gold Speculators lowered bullish net positions after 8 weeks of gains<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 236,089 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -18,671 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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10-Year Note Speculators added to bullish net positions for 2nd week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 270,120 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 18,441 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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S&P500 Speculators boosted their bets to new bullish position this week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of 869 contracts. This was a rise of 6,708 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Silver Speculators decreased bullish bets for 1st time in 9 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 67,803 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly fall of -7,184 contracts from the previous totals.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Copper Speculators sharply lowered bullish net positions this week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 32,587 contracts. This was a weekly shortfall of -14,027 contracts from the data of the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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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).<\/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\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Get our weekly COT Reports by Email Here is a short summary and this week\u2019s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes. – US Dollar Speculators increased USD bearish bets for 5th week – WTI Crude Oil Speculator bets rebounded sharply this week – 10-Year Note Speculators bullish bets were up for […]<\/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-113435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113435","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=113435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113476,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113435\/revisions\/113476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}