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By CountingPips.com

The latest weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures traders slightly decreased their total bullish bets of the US dollar last week following six consecutive weeks of increases in USD positions.

Non-commercial large futures traders, including hedge funds and large International Monetary Market speculators, registered an overall US dollar long position of $24.8 billion as of Tuesday March 26th. This was a decline from a total long position of $25.753 billion on March 19th, according to position calculations by Reuters (US dollar positions against the total positions of eurofx, British pound, Japanese yen, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc).

Individual Currencies Large Speculators Futures Positions:

The individual currency contracts quoted directly against the US dollar last week saw increases for the Australian dollar, New Zealand dollar, Mexican peso and the Canadian dollar while the euro, British pound sterling, Japanese yen and the Swiss franc all had a declining number of net contracts for the week.

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The Commitment of Traders report is published every Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and shows futures positions data that was reported as of the previous Tuesday (3 days behind).

Each currency contract is a quote for that currency directly against the U.S. dollar, a net short amount of contracts means that more speculators are betting that currency to fall against the dollar and a net long position expect that currency to rise versus the dollar.

(The graphs overlay the forex spot closing price of each Tuesday when COT trader positions are reported for each corresponding spot currency pair.)

See more information and explanation on the weekly COT report from the CFTC website.

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VIX Futures:

VIX: VIX speculative contracts increased last week to their highest level since August 2012. VIX futures positions rose to a total of -63,583 net speculative positions as of March 26th following a total of -84,400 contracts that were reported for March 19th. This is a weekly change in net large speculator positions of +20,817 contracts.

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See more information and explanation on the weekly COT report from the CFTC website.

By CountingPips.com

S&P 500 Index Futures:

S&P 500: S&P 500 speculative contracts decreased last week for a second week in a row. S&P 500 futures positions declined to a total of +4,371 net speculative positions as of March 26th following a total of +5,695 contracts that were reported for March 19th. This is a weekly change in net large speculator positions of -1,324 contracts.

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See more information and explanation on the weekly COT report from the CFTC website.

By CountingPips.com