{"id":118278,"date":"2017-12-16T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=118278"},"modified":"2018-06-01T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:48:23","slug":"cot-report-usd-bets-fall-crude-record-goes-higher-euro-bets-highest-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2017\/12\/cot-report-usd-bets-fall-crude-record-goes-higher-euro-bets-highest-since-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: USD bets fall, Crude record goes higher. Euro bets highest since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By CountingPips.com \u2013\u00a0Receive 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 that was released on Friday.<\/p>\n

Speculators push\u00a0US Dollar<\/strong>\u00a0to most bearish position since late October<\/p>\n

WTI Crude Oil<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators continued to push record bullish level higher<\/p>\n

10-Year Note<\/strong>\u00a0Speculative bullish positions rebounded after huge drop last week<\/p>\n

Gold<\/strong>\u00a0Speculators bullish net positions dropped sharply fell for 2nd week<\/p>

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Silver<\/strong> Speculators dropped bets sharply again this week, down for 4th week<\/p>\n

Copper<\/strong> Speculators slightly added to bullish net positions this week<\/p>\n

Large S&P500<\/strong> Speculators boosted bullish bets to highest level since April 4th<\/p>\n

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Currency Speculators: US Dollar bearish bets rise. Euro surge to best since 2007<\/a><\/h2>\n

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US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $-7.81 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 forex traders and currency speculators increased their bearishness in the US dollar for a fourth straight week while betting strongly for the euro. See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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WTI Crude Oil Speculators continued to edge record bullish position higher<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 614,497 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a lift of 3,369 contracts from the previous weekly total. See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gold Speculators drop their bullish bets to lowest in about 5 months<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 107,068 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -66,261 contracts from the previous week. See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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10-Year Note Speculators bullish net positions rebounded this week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 44,741 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 30,396 contracts from the previous week. See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Large S&P500 Speculators boosted bullish net positions for 3rd week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of S&P 500 futures totaled a net position of 4,584 contracts. This was a rise of 3,559 contracts from the reported data of the previous week. See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Silver Speculators dropped bets sharply again this week, down for 4th week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 9,914 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -21,512 contracts from the previous totals. See full article<\/a><\/p>\n

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Copper Speculators slightly added to bullish net positions this week<\/a><\/h2>\n

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The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 27,754 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 1,101 contracts from the data of the previous week. See 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 \u2013\u00a0Receive our weekly COT Reports by Email Here is a short summary and this week\u2019s links (below) to the latest Commitment of Traders changes that was released on Friday. Speculators push\u00a0US Dollar\u00a0to most bearish position since late October WTI Crude Oil\u00a0Speculators continued to push record bullish level higher 10-Year Note\u00a0Speculative bullish positions rebounded […]<\/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-118278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118278","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=118278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118305,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118278\/revisions\/118305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}