{"id":38573,"date":"2013-11-23T10:36:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T15:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=38573"},"modified":"2013-11-23T10:36:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T15:36:25","slug":"vix-futures-speculators-raised-bearish-bets-3rd-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/11\/23\/vix-futures-speculators-raised-bearish-bets-3rd-week\/","title":{"rendered":"VIX Futures Speculators raised bearish bets for 3rd week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIX:\u00a0<\/strong>Large traders and speculators increased their bearish positions in the VIX futures market on November 19th for a third straight week, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data released on Friday. The VIX non-commercial contracts, consisting of large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of -54,855 contracts in the data reported for November 19th. This was a change of -10,330 contracts from the previous week\u2019s total of -44,525 net contracts that was registered on November 12th. Over the same time-frame, the VIX index score advanced a bit from 12.82 on Tuesday November 12th to 13.39 on Tuesday November 19th, according to the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Volatility Index.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #eee;\" \/>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vix1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38574\" alt=\"vix\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vix1.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Last <strong>6<\/strong> Weeks of Large Trader Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"240\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"72\" \/>\n<col width=\"61\" \/>\n<col width=\"50\" \/>\n<col width=\"57\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">Date<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">Net\u00a0Non-Commericals<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\" height=\"19\">Change<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\" height=\"19\">VIX\u00a0Score<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">10\/15\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">-63614<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\" height=\"19\">8636<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\" height=\"19\">18.66<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">10\/22\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">-43297<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\" height=\"19\">20317<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\" height=\"19\">13.33<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">10\/29\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">-39673<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\" height=\"19\">3624<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\" height=\"19\">13.41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">11\/05\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">-41908<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\" height=\"19\">-2235<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\" height=\"19\">13.27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">11\/12\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">-44525<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\" height=\"19\">-2617<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\" height=\"19\">12.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">11\/19\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">-54855<\/td>\n<td width=\"50\" height=\"19\">-10330<\/td>\n<td width=\"57\" height=\"19\">13.39<\/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 Report: The weekly commitment of traders report summarizes the total trader positions for open contracts in the futures trading markets. The CFTC 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). Find CFTC criteria here: (http:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/MarketReports\/CommitmentsofTraders\/ExplanatoryNotes\/index.htm).<\/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 <a href=\"http:\/\/CountingPips.com\"><strong>Forex News &amp; Analysis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CountingPips.com Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Report VIX:\u00a0Large traders and speculators increased their bearish positions in the VIX futures market on November 19th for a third straight week, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data released on Friday. The VIX non-commercial contracts, consisting of large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/11\/23\/vix-futures-speculators-raised-bearish-bets-3rd-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIX Futures Speculators raised bearish bets for 3rd 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-38573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573","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=38573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}