{"id":136924,"date":"2018-11-10T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T18:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=136924"},"modified":"2018-11-10T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T18:12:39","slug":"cot-report-specs-push-usd-index-gold-vix-bets-higher-wti-crude-sp500-mini-bets-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2018\/11\/cot-report-specs-push-usd-index-gold-vix-bets-higher-wti-crude-sp500-mini-bets-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Report: Specs push USD Index, Gold &#038; VIX bets higher. WTI Crude, SP500 Mini bets drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-707400670\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">November 10, 2018<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By CountingPips.com \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.net\/forms\/subscribe-to-our-weekly-cot-report\/\">Receive our weekly COT Reports by Email<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137003 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/VIX_Specs_Small-1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are this week\u2019s links to the latest <strong>Commitment of Traders<\/strong> data changes that were released on Friday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/forex-speculators-raise-us-dollar-index-speculators-bullish-bets-euro-peso-bets-fall\/\">Forex Speculators<\/a><\/strong> raise US Dollar Index Speculators bullish bets. Euro &amp; Peso bets fall<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-continued-to-cut-back-on-their-bullish-bets-for-6th-week\/\">WTI Crude Oil<\/a><\/strong> Speculators continued to cut back on their bullish bets for 6th week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/10-year-note-speculators-pushed-their-bearish-bets-higher-for-1st-time-in-6-weeks\/\"><strong>10-Year Note<\/strong><\/a> Speculators pushed their bearish bets higher for 1st time in 6 weeks<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/bitcoin-speculators-raised-their-cryptocurrency-bearish-bets-for-a-2nd-straight-week\/\">Bitcoin<\/a><\/strong> Speculators raised their cryptocurrency bearish bets for a 2nd straight week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/gold-speculators-advanced-their-bullish-bets-higher-this-week\/\">Gold<\/a><\/strong> Speculators advanced their bullish bets higher this week<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/sp500-mini-speculators-sharply-pulled-back-on-their-bullish-bets-this-week\/\"><strong>S&amp;P500 Mini<\/strong><\/a> Speculators sharply pulled back on their bullish bets<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/vix-speculators-continued-to-boost-their-volatility-bets-this-week\/\">VIX<\/a><\/strong> Speculators continued to boost their volatility bets<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/silver-speculators-reduced-their-bearish-bets-to-best-position-in-13-weeks\/\">Silver<\/a><\/strong> Speculators reduced their bearish bets to best position in 13 weeks<\/li>\n<li class=\"listing-item\"><strong><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/copper-speculator-bullish-positions-rebounded-this-week\/\">Copper<\/a><\/strong> Speculator bullish positions rebounded this week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/forex-speculators-raise-us-dollar-index-speculators-bullish-bets-euro-peso-bets-fall\/\">Forex Speculators raise US Dollar Index Speculators bullish bets. Euro &amp; Peso bets fall<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/forex-speculators-raise-us-dollar-index-speculators-bullish-bets-euro-peso-bets-fall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136927\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136927 size-full\" title=\"image-21-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-21.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-21.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-21-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>US Dollar Index speculator positions go higher once again this week<\/h3>\n<p>Large currency speculators continued to raise their bullish bets for the <strong>US Dollar Index<\/strong> futures markets while sharply cutting back on their <strong>Euro<\/strong> and <strong>Mexican peso<\/strong> bets this week, 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-raise-us-dollar-index-speculators-bullish-bets-euro-peso-bets-fall\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-continued-to-cut-back-on-their-bullish-bets-for-6th-week\/\">WTI Crude Oil Speculators continued to cut back on their bullish bets for 6th week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-continued-to-cut-back-on-their-bullish-bets-for-6th-week\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136930 size-full\" title=\"image-23-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-23.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-23-300x150.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 403,783 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a slide of -28,855 contracts from the previous weekly total. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-continued-to-cut-back-on-their-bullish-bets-for-6th-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/gold-speculators-advanced-their-bullish-bets-higher-this-week\/\">Gold Speculators advanced their bullish bets higher this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/gold-speculators-advanced-their-bullish-bets-higher-this-week\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136932\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136932 size-full\" title=\"image-24-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-24.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-24-300x150.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 19,026 contracts. This was a weekly advance of 5,832 contracts from the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/gold-speculators-advanced-their-bullish-bets-higher-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-pushed-their-bearish-bets-higher-for-1st-time-in-6-weeks\/\">10-Year Note Speculators pushed their bearish bets higher for 1st time in 6 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/10-year-note-speculators-pushed-their-bearish-bets-higher-for-1st-time-in-6-weeks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136935 size-full\" title=\"image-26-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-26.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-26-300x150.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 -539,186 contracts. This was a weekly reduction of -36,347 contracts from the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/10-year-note-speculators-pushed-their-bearish-bets-higher-for-1st-time-in-6-weeks\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p><div id=\"inves-1634505926\" 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-pulled-back-on-their-bullish-bets-this-week\/\">S&amp;P500 Mini Speculators sharply pulled back on their bullish bets this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/sp500-mini-speculators-sharply-pulled-back-on-their-bullish-bets-this-week\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136938 size-full\" title=\"image-27-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-27.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-27-300x150.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 198,022 contracts. This was a decrease of -64,986 contracts from the reported data of the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/sp500-mini-speculators-sharply-pulled-back-on-their-bullish-bets-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/silver-speculators-reduced-their-bearish-bets-to-best-position-in-13-weeks\/\">Silver Speculators reduced their bearish bets to best position in 13 weeks<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/silver-speculators-reduced-their-bearish-bets-to-best-position-in-13-weeks\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136940\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136940 size-full\" title=\"image-29-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-29.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-29.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-29-300x150.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 -2,470 contracts, according to data from this week. This was a weekly gain of 6,000 contracts from the previous totals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/silver-speculators-reduced-their-bearish-bets-to-best-position-in-13-weeks\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/copper-speculator-bullish-positions-rebounded-this-week\/\">Copper Speculator bullish positions rebounded this week<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/copper-speculator-bullish-positions-rebounded-this-week\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-136943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-136943 size-full\" title=\"image-31-png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-31.png 600w, https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/image-31-300x150.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 6,386 contracts. This was a weekly boost of 5,719 contracts from the data of the previous week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/2018\/11\/copper-speculator-bullish-positions-rebounded-this-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Article by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/CountingPips.com\">CountingPips.com<\/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 \u2013 Receive 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 raise US Dollar Index Speculators bullish bets. Euro &amp; Peso bets fall WTI Crude Oil Speculators continued to cut back on their bullish bets for [&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-136924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136924","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=136924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137006,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136924\/revisions\/137006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}