{"id":33825,"date":"2013-04-07T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=33825"},"modified":"2013-04-07T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T20:33:30","slug":"gold-futures-speculative-contracts-fall-for-2nd-straight-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/04\/07\/gold-futures-speculative-contracts-fall-for-2nd-straight-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold Futures Speculative contracts fall for 2nd straight week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gold Futures CMX: <\/strong>Weekly change of -12,240<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GOLD.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GOLD\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/GOLD.gif\" width=\"611\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold:<\/strong> Gold speculative contracts declined last week to fall for a second straight week. Gold futures positions declined to a total of +120,206 net speculative positions as of April 2nd following a total of +132,446 contracts that were reported for March 26th. This is a weekly change in net large speculator positions of -12,240 contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Gold speculative positions have been on a steady decline since reaching an apex on October 9th 2012 at +211,949 contracts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See more information and explanation on the weekly COT report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/ExplanatoryNotes\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CFTC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Futures CMX: Weekly change of -12,240 Gold: Gold speculative contracts declined last week to fall for a second straight week. Gold futures positions declined to a total of +120,206 net speculative positions as of April 2nd following a total of +132,446 contracts that were reported for March 26th. This is a weekly change in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/04\/07\/gold-futures-speculative-contracts-fall-for-2nd-straight-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gold Futures Speculative contracts fall for 2nd straight 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-33825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33825","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=33825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}