{"id":131307,"date":"2018-08-04T10:35:58","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T14:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=131307"},"modified":"2018-08-04T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T14:45:51","slug":"currency-speculators-raised-us-dollar-index-bets-for-15th-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/08\/currency-speculators-raised-us-dollar-index-bets-for-15th-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Currency Speculators raised US Dollar Index bets for 15th week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-869377426\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">August 4, 2018<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>August 4th 2018 &#8211; By CountingPips.com<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.net\/forms\/subscribe-to-our-weekly-cot-report\/\"><strong>Get our weekly COT Reports by Email<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\" scoped=\"scoped\">\n\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\tclear: both;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item-wrapper {\n\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\tmargin: 0;\n\t\t\tpadding: 0;\n\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#ie6 #gallery-1 .gallery-item-wrapper,\n\t\t#ie7 #gallery-1 .gallery-item-wrapper {\n\t\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\tdisplay: block;\n\t\t\tfloat: none;\n\t\t\tmargin: 5px;\n\t\t\twidth: auto !important;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#ie6 #gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\tdisplay: inline;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-icon a {\n\t\t\tdisplay: block;\n\t\t\tline-height: 0;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\twidth: 100% !important;\n\t\t\tmax-width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\theight: auto !important;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\toverflow: hidden;\n\t\t}\n\t\t#ie6 #gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\tword-wrap: break-word;\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-131307 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full clearfix'>\n<div class='gallery-item-wrapper'>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DX_1.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DX_1.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DX_1.png 900w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DX_1-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/DX_1-768x597.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<br style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/div>\n\n<p><b>US Dollar Index Non-Commercial Speculator Positions:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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 increased their bets in favor of the US Dollar Index futures for a fifteenth consecutive week.<\/p>\n<p>The non-commercial futures contracts of US Dollar Index futures, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of 28,456 contracts in the data reported through Tuesday July 31st. This was a weekly rise of 3,185 contracts from the previous week which had a total of 25,271 net contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The speculative position in the Dollar Index futures has now risen for a fifteenth consecutive week to the highest overall bullish standing since May 23rd of 2017 (a span of 62 weeks).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>The Aggregate US Dollar Position edges slightly lower after 6 weeks of gains<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131311\" title=\"image-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>US Dollar net speculator positions dipped to $20.06 billion this week<\/h3>\n<p>The aggregate US dollar position &#8211; totals of the US dollar contracts against the combined contracts of the euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc &#8211; showed that large traders and currency speculators edged their overall bets lower to a total $20.06 billion bullish position this week, according to data from the CFTC and dollar amount calculations by Reuters.<\/p><div id=\"inves-3124292541\" class=\"inves-in-content inves-entity-placement\"><hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads_header\">\r\n<p style=\"font-size:10px; float:left; color:#666;\">Free Reports:<\/p><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"inpost_ads\"> \r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/graph_techs_PD.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t     <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/1ApBOV\"><b><u>Get Our Free Metatrader 4 Indicators<\/u><\/b><\/a> - Put Our Free MetaTrader 4 Custom Indicators on your charts when you join our Weekly Newsletter<\/p><br><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<p style=\"font-size:15px; float:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/investmacro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cot_pie_80.png\" align=\"left\" width=\"80\"  height=\"55\"\/><\/a>\r\n\t    <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/f3RrHX\"><b><u>Get our Weekly Commitment of Traders Reports<\/u><\/b><\/a> - See where the biggest traders (Hedge Funds and Commercial Hedgers) are positioned in the futures markets on a weekly basis.<\/p><br><br>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"border: 1px solid #ddd;\">\r\n<br><\/div>\n<p>This was a weekly decline of $-0.27 billion from the $20.33 billion total position that was registered last week, according to the Reuters calculation (totals of the US dollar contracts against the combined contracts of the euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc).<\/p>\n<p>The aggregate measure had advanced for six straight weeks before this week&#8217;s small decline and has now been in a bullish position for the past seven weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-5.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131316\" title=\"image-5-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Individual Currency Contract Data this week<\/h3>\n<p>For individual currency contracts this week, the non-commercial large futures traders, including hedge funds and large speculators, bet in favor of the US Dollar Index (3,185 weekly change in contracts), the Japanese yen (5,312 contracts), Swiss franc (1,386 contracts), Canadian dollar (12,942 contracts),\u00a0New Zealand dollar (690 contracts) and the Mexican peso (6,931 contracts).<\/p>\n<p>The currencies whose speculative bets declined this week were the euro (-6,815 weekly change in contracts), British pound sterling (-643 contracts) and the Australian dollar (-5,990 contracts).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Table of Weekly Commercial Traders and Speculators Levels &amp; Changes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"597\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Currency<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Net Commercials<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Comms Weekly Chg<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Net Speculators<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Specs Weekly Chg<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>EuroFx<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-46,594<\/td>\n<td>-1,521<\/td>\n<td>22,825<\/td>\n<td>-6,815<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>GBP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>61,592<\/td>\n<td>-3,529<\/td>\n<td>-47,386<\/td>\n<td>-643<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>JPY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>93,107<\/td>\n<td>-4,539<\/td>\n<td>-68,457<\/td>\n<td>5,312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>CHF<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>64,873<\/td>\n<td>-2,219<\/td>\n<td>-44,422<\/td>\n<td>1,386<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>CAD<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>35,104<\/td>\n<td>-14,045<\/td>\n<td>-31,569<\/td>\n<td>12,942<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>AUD<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>71,147<\/td>\n<td>6,132<\/td>\n<td>-51,476<\/td>\n<td>-5,990<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>NZD<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>28,265<\/td>\n<td>49<\/td>\n<td>-23,680<\/td>\n<td>690<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>MXN<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-28,662<\/td>\n<td>-7,131<\/td>\n<td>26,515<\/td>\n<td>6,931<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This latest COT data is through Tuesday and shows a quick view of how large speculators or non-commercials (for-profit traders) as well as the commercial traders (hedgers &amp; traders for business purposes) were positioned in the futures markets. All currency positions are in direct relation to the US dollar where, for example, a bet for the euro is a bet that the euro will rise versus the dollar while a bet against the euro will be a bet that the dollar will gain versus the euro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Weekly Charts: Large Trader Weekly Positions vs Price<\/h3>\n<p><strong>EuroFX:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131312\" title=\"image-1-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>British Pound Sterling:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-4.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131315\" title=\"image-4-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Japanese Yen:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-8.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131320\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131320\" title=\"image-8-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Swiss Franc:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-10.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131322\" title=\"image-10-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Canadian Dollar:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-13.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131327\" title=\"image-13-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-13.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Australian Dollar:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-14.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131331\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131331\" title=\"image-14-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>New Zealand Dollar:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-15.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131334\" title=\"image-15-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-15.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Mexican Peso:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-16.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131338\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131338\" title=\"image-16-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>*COT Report:<\/strong> The weekly commitment of traders report summarizes the total trader positions for open contracts in the futures trading markets. The CFTC categorizes trader positions according to commercial hedgers (traders who use futures contracts for hedging as part of the business), non-commercials (large traders who speculate to realize trading profits) and nonreportable traders (usually small traders\/speculators). Find CFTC criteria here: (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/ExplanatoryNotes\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/ExplanatoryNotes\/index.htm<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Commitment of Traders report is published every Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and shows futures positions data that was reported as of the previous Tuesday (3 days behind).<\/p>\n<p>Each currency contract is a quote for that currency directly against the U.S. dollar, a net short amount of contracts means that more speculators are betting that currency to fall against the dollar and a net long position expect that currency to rise versus the dollar.<\/p>\n<p>(The charts overlay the forex closing price of each Tuesday when COT trader positions are reported for each corresponding spot currency pair.) See more information and explanation on the weekly COT report from the CFTC website.<\/p>\n<p>Article by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/CountingPips.com\">CountingPips.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 4th 2018 &#8211; By CountingPips.com &#8211; Get our weekly COT Reports by Email US Dollar Index Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: 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 increased their bets in favor of the [&hellip;]<\/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-131307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131307","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=131307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131413,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131307\/revisions\/131413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}