{"id":33278,"date":"2013-03-10T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T21:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=33278"},"modified":"2013-03-10T17:34:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T21:34:47","slug":"cot-forex-canadian-dollar-large-trader-futures-positions-fell-lower-last-week-to-decline-for-a-7th-consecutive-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/03\/10\/cot-forex-canadian-dollar-large-trader-futures-positions-fell-lower-last-week-to-decline-for-a-7th-consecutive-week\/","title":{"rendered":"COT Forex: Canadian Dollar Large Trader Futures Positions fell lower last week to decline for a 7th consecutive week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CAD:<\/strong> Canadian dollar positions decreased sharply lower once again last week to decline for a seventh consecutive week. Canadian dollar positions fell to a total of -46,663 contracts as of March 5th following a total of -21,433 net contracts that were reported for February 26th.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian dollar short positions are now at their lowest speculative level in over five years and on the bearish side for a second week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cad1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33230\" alt=\"cad\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cad1.gif\" width=\"593\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Currency Futures Contracts Data: <\/strong>Non-Commercial Large Traders<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 5th:<\/strong> Long Positions = 39,564, Short Positions = 86,227, Net Total =\u00a0<strong>-46,663<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 26th:<\/strong> Long Positions =\u00a0 42,171, Short Positions = 63,604, Net Total =\u00a0<strong>-21,433<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>(The graphs overlay the forex spot closing price of each Tuesday when COT trader positions are reported for each corresponding spot currency pair.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article by <strong>CountingPips.com<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forex News &amp; Market Analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CountingPips.com CAD: Canadian dollar positions decreased sharply lower once again last week to decline for a seventh consecutive week. Canadian dollar positions fell to a total of -46,663 contracts as of March 5th following a total of -21,433 net contracts that were reported for February 26th. The Canadian dollar short positions are now at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/03\/10\/cot-forex-canadian-dollar-large-trader-futures-positions-fell-lower-last-week-to-decline-for-a-7th-consecutive-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COT Forex: Canadian Dollar Large Trader Futures Positions fell lower last week to decline for a 7th consecutive week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-33278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}