{"id":160049,"date":"2019-11-18T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countingpips.com\/?p=160049"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:19:57","slug":"dollar-strengthening-continued-on-positive-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2019\/11\/dollar-strengthening-continued-on-positive-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar strengthening continued on positive data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-2611501566\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">November 18, 2019<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><p><strong>By <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>IFCMarkets<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em> US dollar <\/em> net long bets increase continued to $16.18 billion from $13.33 billion against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/en\/about-forex\/major-currency-pairs\">major currencies<\/a> during the one week period, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to November 12 and released on Friday November 15. The ICE US dollar index advance continued on positive data and hawkish central bank officials\u2019 comments: the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index rose to 95.7 from 95.5 in October, initial jobless claims were below forecast for the week, while Chicago Fed President Charles Evan said the US economy may not need additional interest rate cuts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"div_anotation\">\n<h2>CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>November 12 2019<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Bias<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Ex RateTrend<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Position $ mln<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Weekly Change<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>CAD<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bullish<\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">3202<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-882<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>AUD<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-2791<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-944<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>EUR<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-8409<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>GBP<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-2259<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">78<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>CHF<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>positive<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-1904<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>JPY<\/b><\/td>\n<td>bearish<\/td>\n<td>negative<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-4015<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-968<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<td align=\"right\">-16175<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_NetShortLong_18November2019.jpg\" alt=\"commitment of traders net long short\" \/><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_WeeklyChange_18November2019.jpg\" alt=\"commitment of traders weekly change\" \/><\/center><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ifccd.net\/uploads\/image\/CFTC_ShortLongRatio_18November2019.jpg\" alt=\"market sentiment ratio long short positions\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifcmarkets.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IFCMarkets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note:<br \/>\nThis overview has an informative and tutorial character and is published for free. All the data, included in the overview, are received from public sources, recognized as more or less reliable. Moreover, there is no guarantee that the indicated information is full and precise. Overviews are not updated. The whole information in each overview, including opinion, indicators, charts and anything else, is provided only for familiarization purposes and is not financial advice or \u0430 recommendation. The whole text and its any part, as well as the charts cannot be considered as an offer to make a deal with any asset. IFC Markets and its employees under any circumstances are not liable for any action taken by someone else during or after reading the overview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By IFCMarkets US dollar net long bets increase continued to $16.18 billion from $13.33 billion against the major currencies during the one week period, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to November 12 and released on Friday November 15. The ICE US dollar index advance continued on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160049","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160075,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160049\/revisions\/160075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}