{"id":98471,"date":"2016-11-20T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=98471"},"modified":"2016-11-20T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T23:19:23","slug":"commitment-of-traders-weekly-roundup-nov-15th-2016-speculator-positions-vs-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2016\/11\/commitment-of-traders-weekly-roundup-nov-15th-2016-speculator-positions-vs-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitment of Traders Weekly Roundup Nov. 15th 2016 : Speculator Positions vs Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"inves-695644434\" class=\"inves-below-title-posts inves-entity-placement\"><div id =\"posts_date_custom\"><div align=\"left\">November 20, 2016<\/div><hr style=\"border: none; border-bottom: 3px solid black;\">\r\n<\/div><\/div><h3><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong>Get this\u00a0weekly COT Trader\u00a0Report by <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.net\/forms\/subscribe-to-our-weekly-cot-report\/\">Email<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/currency-speculators-reduced-us-dollar-bullish-bets-for-1st-time-in-8-weeks\/\">Currency Speculators reduced US Dollar bullish bets for 1st time in 8 weeks<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-127.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98472\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98472\" title=\"image-127-png\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-127.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $20.87 billion last week<\/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 reduced their bullish bets for the US dollar last week following\u00a0seven consecutive weekly gains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The major currencies that improved against the US dollar last week were the euro (+10,132 weekly change in contracts), British pound sterling (+9,532 contracts), Swiss franc (+1,097 contracts), Canadian dollar (+2,713 contracts) and the Australian dollar (+410 contracts).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The currencies whose speculative bets declined last week versus the dollar were the\u00a0Japanese yen (-11,280 contracts), New Zealand dollar (-462 contracts) and the Mexican peso (-12,157 contracts).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/currency-speculators-reduced-us-dollar-bullish-bets-for-1st-time-in-8-weeks\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-edged-bullish-positions-lower-for-5th-week\/\">WTI Crude Oil Speculators edged bullish positions lower for 5th week<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-128.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98473\" title=\"image-128-png\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-128.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The non-commercial contracts of WTI crude futures totaled a net position of 276,326 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a change of -1,213 contracts from the previous weekly total.<\/p><div id=\"inves-4208904688\" 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 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/wti-crude-oil-speculators-edged-bullish-positions-lower-for-5th-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/gold-speculators-sharply-reduced-their-bullish-positions-last-week\/\">Gold Speculators sharply reduced their bullish positions last week<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-129.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98474\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98474\" title=\"image-129-png\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-129.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of gold futures declined to a total net position of 177,660 contracts. This was a weekly change of -39,578 contracts from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/gold-speculators-sharply-reduced-their-bullish-positions-last-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/10-year-treasury-note-speculators-sharply-raised-their-positions-last-week\/\">10 Year Treasury Note Speculators sharply raised their positions last week<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-130.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98475\" title=\"image-130-png\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-130.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of 10-year treasury note futures totaled a net position of 137,396 contracts. This was a weekly change of 209,056 contracts from the previous week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/10-year-treasury-note-speculators-sharply-raised-their-positions-last-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/sp500-speculators-trimmed-bullish-positions-for-1st-time-in-3-weeks\/\">S&amp;P500 Speculators trimmed bullish positions for 1st time in 3 weeks<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-131.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98476\" title=\"image-131-png\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-131.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of S&amp;P 500 futures totaled a net position of 6,703 contracts. This was a change of -3,640 contracts from the reported data of the previous week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/sp500-speculators-trimmed-bullish-positions-for-1st-time-in-3-weeks\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/silver-speculators-trimmed-net-bullish-positions-last-week\/\">Silver Speculators trimmed net bullish positions last week<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-132.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98477\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98477\" title=\"image-132-png\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-132.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The non-commercial contracts of silver futures totaled a net position of 62606 contracts, according to data from last week. This was a weekly change of -2663 contracts from the previous totals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/silver-speculators-trimmed-net-bullish-positions-last-week\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/copper-speculators-boosted-bullish-net-positions-for-3rd-week-cftc-cot-data\/\">Copper Speculators boosted bullish net positions for 3rd week: CFTC COT Data<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-133.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-98478\" title=\"image-133-png\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/articles-analysis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/image-133.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The large speculator contracts of copper futures totaled a net position of 44995 contracts. This was a weekly change of 5359 contracts from the data of the previous week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/2016\/11\/copper-speculators-boosted-bullish-net-positions-for-3rd-week-cftc-cot-data\/\">See full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CountingPips.com \u00a0Get this\u00a0weekly COT Trader\u00a0Report by Email Currency Speculators reduced US Dollar bullish bets for 1st time in 8 weeks US Dollar net speculator positions leveled at $20.87 billion last week The latest data for the weekly Commitment of Traders (COT) report, released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday, showed that [&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-98471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98471","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=98471"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98516,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98471\/revisions\/98516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}