{"id":114340,"date":"2017-10-07T16:35:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T20:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=114340"},"modified":"2017-10-07T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T21:11:00","slug":"cot-report-specs-trim-usd-shorts-gold-silver-crude-10yr-bets-all-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/10\/cot-report-specs-trim-usd-shorts-gold-silver-crude-10yr-bets-all-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: Specs trim USD shorts. Gold, Silver, Crude, 10YR bets all fall"},"content":{"rendered":"
October 7, 2017<\/div>
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By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

–\u00a0US Dollar<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators decreased their USD bearish bets for 1st time in 7 weeks<\/p>\n

–\u00a0WTI Crude Oil<\/strong>\u00a0Speculator bets fell after 2 weeks of gains<\/p>\n

–\u00a010-Year Note<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators decreased bullish bets for 2nd week<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Gold<\/strong>\u00a0speculators dropped bullish bets for 3rd week<\/p>\n

– Large\u00a0S&P500<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators went into small short position<\/p>

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–\u00a0Silver<\/strong>\u00a0Speculator bets declined for 3rd week<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Copper<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators raised bullish bets after 3 down weeks<\/p>\n

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Forex Speculators raised US Dollar bets for 1st time in 7 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n

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US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $-16.83 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 raised their bets for the US dollar last week following six straight weeks of declines.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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WTI Crude Oil Speculator bets fell for 1st time in 3 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 444,316 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a slide of -9,792 contracts from the previous weekly total.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gold Speculators cut back on bullish net positions for 3rd week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 203,855 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -8,739 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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10-Year Note Speculators lowered 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 232,156 contracts. This was a weekly reduction of -24,470 contracts from the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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S&P500 Speculators reduced their net positions to a short position<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of -376 contracts. This was a decrease of -1,458 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Silver Speculators cut back on bullish net positions for 3rd week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 59,179 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly fall of -1,081 contracts from the previous totals.\u00a0See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Copper Speculators lifted net positions for 1st time in 4 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 33,829 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 3,693 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 –\u00a0US Dollar\u00a0Speculators decreased their USD bearish bets for 1st time in 7 weeks –\u00a0WTI Crude Oil\u00a0Speculator bets fell after 2 weeks of gains –\u00a010-Year Note\u00a0Speculators decreased bullish bets for 2nd week –\u00a0Gold\u00a0speculators dropped bullish bets for 3rd week – Large\u00a0S&P500\u00a0Speculators went into small short position –\u00a0Silver\u00a0Speculator bets declined for 3rd week –\u00a0Copper\u00a0Speculators raised […]<\/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-114340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114340","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=114340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114370,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114340\/revisions\/114370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}