{"id":136508,"date":"2018-11-03T11:59:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=136508"},"modified":"2018-11-03T12:05:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T16:05:39","slug":"cot-report-speculators-continue-to-boost-usd-index-bets-vix-bets-go-bullish-wti-gold-bets-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/11\/cot-report-speculators-continue-to-boost-usd-index-bets-vix-bets-go-bullish-wti-gold-bets-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: Speculators continue to boost USD Index bets. VIX bets go bullish. WTI, Gold bets slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-1063545165\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">November 3, 2018<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By CountingPips.com\u00a0 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.net\/forms\/subscribe-to-our-weekly-cot-report\/\">Get our weekly COT Reports by Email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136603 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are this week\u2019s links to the latest Commitment of Traders data changes that were released on Friday.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\">\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/forex-speculators-again-raised-us-dollar-index-bullish-bets-mexican-peso-bets-slide\/\"><strong>Forex Speculators<\/strong><\/a> again raised US Dollar Index bullish bets. Mexican Peso bets slide<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-decreased-their-bullish-bets-for-5th-straight-week\/\"><strong>WTI Crude Oil<\/strong><\/a> Speculators decreased their bullish bets for 5th straight week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/10-year-note-speculators-continued-to-cut-back-on-their-bearish-bets-this-week\/\"><strong>10-Year Note<\/strong><\/a> Speculators continued to cut back on their bearish bets<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/bitcoin-speculators-slightly-added-to-their-bearish-bets-this-week\/\">Bitcoin<\/a><\/strong> Speculators slightly added to their bearish bets<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/gold-speculators-bullish-bets-cooled-off-this-week\/\">Gold<\/a><\/strong> Speculators bullish bets cooled off this week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/sp500-mini-speculators-sharply-advanced-their-bullish-bets-again-this-week\/\"><strong>S&amp;P500 Mini<\/strong><\/a> Speculators sharply advanced their bullish bets again<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/vix-speculators-raised-their-bets-into-a-new-bullish-position-this-week\/\">VIX<\/a><\/strong> Speculators raised their bets into a new bullish position<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/silver-speculators-upped-their-bearish-bets-this-week\/\">Silver<\/a><\/strong> Speculators upped their bearish bets<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/copper-speculators-dropped-their-bullish-bets-this-week-after-2-weeks-of-gains\/\">Copper<\/a><\/strong> Speculators dropped their bullish bets this week after 2 weeks of gains<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/forex-speculators-again-raised-us-dollar-index-bullish-bets-mexican-peso-bets-slide\/\">Forex Speculators again raised US Dollar Index bullish bets. Mexican Peso bets slide<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-4.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136510\" title=\"image-4-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-4.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-4-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>US Dollar Index speculator positions continued higher this week<\/h3>\n<p>Large currency speculators continued to boost their bullish bets in favor of US Dollar Index futures once again this week while cutting back on their bullish Mexican peso positions, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/forex-speculators-again-raised-us-dollar-index-bullish-bets-mexican-peso-bets-slide\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-decreased-their-bullish-bets-for-5th-straight-week\/\">WTI Crude Oil Speculators decreased their bullish bets for 5th straight week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-6.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136513\" title=\"image-6-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-6.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-6-300x150.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 432,638 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -22,640 contracts from the previous weekly total. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-decreased-their-bullish-bets-for-5th-straight-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/gold-speculators-bullish-bets-cooled-off-this-week\/\">Gold Speculators bullish bets cooled off this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-8.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136515\" title=\"image-8-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-8.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-8-300x150.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 13,194 contracts. This was a weekly decline of -16,194 contracts from the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/gold-speculators-bullish-bets-cooled-off-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/10-year-note-speculators-continued-to-cut-back-on-their-bearish-bets-this-week\/\">10-Year Note Speculators continued to cut back on their bearish bets this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-9.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136516\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136516\" title=\"image-9-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-9.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-9-300x150.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 -502,839 contracts. This was a weekly increase of 41,194 contracts from the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/10-year-note-speculators-continued-to-cut-back-on-their-bearish-bets-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p><div id=\"inves-478557087\" 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\/11\/sp500-mini-speculators-sharply-advanced-their-bullish-bets-again-this-week\/\">S&amp;P500 Mini Speculators sharply advanced their bullish bets again this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-11.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136519\" title=\"image-11-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-11.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-11.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-11-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of S&amp;P500 Mini futures totaled a net position of 263,008 contracts. This was a rise of 23,636 contracts from the reported data of the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/sp500-mini-speculators-sharply-advanced-their-bullish-bets-again-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/silver-speculators-upped-their-bearish-bets-this-week\/\">Silver Speculators upped their bearish bets this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-12.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136520\" title=\"image-12-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-12.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-12-300x150.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 -8,470 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly fall of -3,291 contracts from the previous totals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/silver-speculators-upped-their-bearish-bets-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/copper-speculators-dropped-their-bullish-bets-this-week-after-2-weeks-of-gains\/\">Copper Speculators dropped their bullish bets this week after 2 weeks of gains<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-14.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136524\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-136524\" title=\"image-14-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-14.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-14-300x150.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 667 contracts. This was a weekly shortfall of -8,680 contracts from the data of the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/copper-speculators-dropped-their-bullish-bets-this-week-after-2-weeks-of-gains\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Article by <strong>CountingPips.com\u00a0 &#8211; <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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CountingPips.com\u00a0 &#8211; Get our weekly COT Reports by Email Here are this week\u2019s links to the latest Commitment of Traders data changes that were released on Friday. Forex Speculators again raised US Dollar Index bullish bets. Mexican Peso bets slide WTI Crude Oil Speculators decreased their bullish bets for 5th straight week 10-Year Note [&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-136508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136508","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=136508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136604,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136508\/revisions\/136604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}