{"id":36325,"date":"2013-08-10T18:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T22:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=36325"},"modified":"2013-08-10T18:20:25","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T22:20:25","slug":"us-10-year-treasury-speculator-positions-declined-to-bearish-side-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/08\/10\/us-10-year-treasury-speculator-positions-declined-to-bearish-side-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"US 10-Year Treasury Speculator Positions declined to bearish side last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">By CountingPips.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>10 Year Treasuries:\u00a0<\/strong>Large trader and speculator positions for 10-year treasury notes in the futures markets fell last week to an overall small bearish position. 10-year treasury contracts decreased to a total net position of -20,096 total contracts in the data reported for August 6th. This is a decline of -31,999 contracts from the previous week\u2019s total of +11,903 net contracts on July 30th. In the same timeframe, the yield on the 10 Year treasury note rose from 2.63 on Tuesday July 30th to 2.67 on Tuesday August 6th, according to US Treasury data.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/10Year1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36326\" alt=\"10Year\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/10Year1.png\" width=\"615\" height=\"441\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Last <strong>6<\/strong> Weeks of Large Trader Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"230\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"75\" \/>\n<col width=\"97\" \/>\n<col width=\"58\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">Date<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">Net\u00a0Large\u00a0Specs<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">Weekly\u00a0Change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">07\/02\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-22917<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">-55928<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">07\/09\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-47110<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">-24193<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">07\/16\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">17735<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">64845<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">07\/23\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-32312<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">-50047<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">07\/30\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">11903<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">44215<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">08\/06\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-20096<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">-31999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #eee;\" \/>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">*COT explanation: The weekly cot report summarizes the total trader positions for open contracts in the futures trading markets. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/ExplanatoryNotes\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CFTC<\/a> categorizes trader positions according to commercial hedgers (traders who use futures contracts for hedging as part of the business), non-commercials (large traders who speculate to realize trading profits) and nonreportable traders (usually small traders\/speculators).<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #eee;\" \/>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">Article by <strong>CountingPips.com<\/strong> \u2013 <strong>Forex News &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/\">Market Analysis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CountingPips.com Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Report 10 Year Treasuries:\u00a0Large trader and speculator positions for 10-year treasury notes in the futures markets fell last week to an overall small bearish position. 10-year treasury contracts decreased to a total net position of -20,096 total contracts in the data reported for August 6th. This is a decline &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/08\/10\/us-10-year-treasury-speculator-positions-declined-to-bearish-side-last-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US 10-Year Treasury Speculator Positions declined to bearish side last 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-36325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325","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=36325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}