{"id":131746,"date":"2018-08-11T16:08:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=131746"},"modified":"2018-08-11T16:21:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T20:21:14","slug":"cot-report-usd-bets-continue-to-rise-sp500-mini-gold-silver-copper-bets-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/08\/cot-report-usd-bets-continue-to-rise-sp500-mini-gold-silver-copper-bets-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: USD bets continue to rise. SP500-Mini, Gold, Silver &#038; Copper bets drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-4041020566\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">August 11, 2018<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By CountingPips.com \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.net\/forms\/subscribe-to-our-weekly-cot-report\/\">Get our weekly COT Reports by Email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here is this week\u2019s links (below) and short summaries\u00a0to the latest Commitment of Traders changes that were released on Friday.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\">\n<li class=\"listing-item\">Currency Speculators <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/currency-speculators-continue-boosting-us-dollar-bets-higher\/\">continue boosting <strong>US Dollar<\/strong> bets higher<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-slightly-reduced-bullish-net-positions-this-week\/\"><strong>WTI Crude Oil<\/strong><\/a> Speculators slightly reduced bullish net positions this week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong>10-Year Note<\/strong> Speculators <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/10-year-note-speculators-trimmed-their-bearish-bets-from-record-high\/\">trimmed their bearish bets from record high<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> Speculator bearish net positions <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/bitcoin-speculator-bearish-net-positions-virtually-unchanged-this-week\/\">virtually unchanged this week<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/gold-speculators-sharply-drop-their-bullish-bets-again-this-week\/\"><strong>Gold<\/strong> Speculators<\/a> sharply drop their bullish bets again this week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong>S&amp;P500 Mini<\/strong> Speculators <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/sp500-mini-speculators-lowered-their-bullish-bets-for-3rd-week\/\">lowered their bullish bets for 3rd week<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong>VIX<\/strong> Speculators <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/vix-speculators-pushed-bearish-bets-higher-for-a-5th-straight-week\/\">pushed bearish bets higher<\/a> for a 5th straight week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/eurodollar-speculators-decreased-bearish-bets-for-5th-week\/\"><strong>Eurodollar<\/strong><\/a> Speculators decreased bearish bets for 5th week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong>Silver<\/strong> Speculators <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/silver-speculators-cut-back-again-on-their-bullish-bets-this-week\/\">cut back again on their bullish bets this week<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/copper-speculators-reduced-their-positions-to-lowest-since-oct-2016\/\"><strong>Copper<\/strong> Speculators<\/a> reduced their positions to lowest since Oct. 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/currency-speculators-continue-boosting-us-dollar-bets-higher\/\">Currency Speculators continue boosting US Dollar bets higher<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-19.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131747\" title=\"image-19-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-19.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-19-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $22.02 billion as of Tuesday<\/h3>\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 continued to boost their bets in favor of the US dollar this week while sharply cutting back on euro and British pound bets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/currency-speculators-continue-boosting-us-dollar-bets-higher\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-slightly-reduced-bullish-net-positions-this-week\/\">WTI Crude Oil Speculators slightly reduced bullish net positions this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-20.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131748\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131748\" title=\"image-20-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-20.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-20.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-20-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 608,927 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -4,473 contracts from the previous weekly total. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-slightly-reduced-bullish-net-positions-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/gold-speculators-sharply-drop-their-bullish-bets-again-this-week\/\">Gold Speculators sharply drop their bullish bets again this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-23.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131751\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131751\" title=\"image-23-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-23.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-23-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of gold futures totaled a net position of 12,688 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -22,649 contracts from the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/gold-speculators-sharply-drop-their-bullish-bets-again-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/10-year-note-speculators-trimmed-their-bearish-bets-from-record-high\/\">10-Year Note Speculators trimmed their bearish bets from record high<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-24.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131754\" title=\"image-24-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-24.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-24-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of -586,299 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 3,829 contracts from the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/10-year-note-speculators-trimmed-their-bearish-bets-from-record-high\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p><div id=\"inves-1299353117\" 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<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/sp500-mini-speculators-lowered-their-bullish-bets-for-3rd-week\/\">S&amp;P500 Mini Speculators lowered their bullish bets for 3rd week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131832\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ES_Specs_Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ES_Specs_Small.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ES_Specs_Small-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Large stock market speculators cut back on their bullish net positions in the S&amp;P500 Mini futures markets for a third consecutive week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/sp500-mini-speculators-lowered-their-bullish-bets-for-3rd-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/silver-speculators-cut-back-again-on-their-bullish-bets-this-week\/\">Silver Speculators cut back again on their bullish bets this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-27.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131760\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131760\" title=\"image-27-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-27.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-27-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 4,341 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -1,523 contracts from the previous totals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/silver-speculators-cut-back-again-on-their-bullish-bets-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/copper-speculators-reduced-their-positions-to-lowest-since-oct-2016\/\">Copper Speculators reduced their positions to lowest since Oct. 2016<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-29.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-131764\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-131764\" title=\"image-29-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-29.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-29.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/image-29-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 2,190 contracts. This was a weekly shortfall of -6,034 contracts from the data of the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/08\/copper-speculators-reduced-their-positions-to-lowest-since-oct-2016\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Article by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/CountingPips.com\">CountingPips.com\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.net\/forms\/subscribe-to-our-weekly-cot-report\/\">Get our weekly COT Reports by Email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>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<p><em>To learn more about this data please visit the CFTC website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/index.htm<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CountingPips.com \u2013\u00a0Get our weekly COT Reports by Email Here is this week\u2019s links (below) and short summaries\u00a0to the latest Commitment of Traders changes that were released on Friday. Currency Speculators continue boosting US Dollar bets higher WTI Crude Oil Speculators slightly reduced bullish net positions this week 10-Year Note Speculators trimmed their bearish bets [&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-131746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131746","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=131746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131833,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131746\/revisions\/131833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}