{"id":39107,"date":"2013-12-15T09:53:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=39107"},"modified":"2013-12-15T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T14:53:01","slug":"us-10-year-treasury-note-speculators-decrease-bearish-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/12\/15\/us-10-year-treasury-note-speculators-decrease-bearish-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"US 10-Year Treasury Note Speculators cut bearish positions to lowest level in 6 weeks"},"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>10 Year Treasuries:\u00a0<\/strong>Large trader and futures market speculators decreased their overall bearish positions in the 10-year treasury note futures after adding to bearish bets the previous week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The non-commercial futures contracts of the 10-year treasury notes, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of -150,029 contracts in the data reported for December 10th. This was a change of +17,331 contracts from the previous week\u2019s total of -167,360 net contracts that was registered on December 3rd. The December 10th level marks the lowest bearish position since October 29th when bearish contracts were at a total of -125,670.<\/p>\n<p>Over the same time-frame, the yield on the 10-Year treasury note increased from 2.79 on Tuesday December 3rd to a yield of 2.81 on Tuesday December 10th, according to US Treasury data.<\/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\/12\/10yr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39108\" alt=\"10yr\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/10yr.png\" width=\"659\" height=\"369\" \/><\/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=\"345\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"75\" \/>\n<col width=\"97\" \/>\n<col width=\"58\" \/>\n<col width=\"115\" \/> <\/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<td width=\"115\" height=\"19\">10\u00a0Year\u00a0Yield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">11\/05\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-189188<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">-63518<\/td>\n<td width=\"115\" height=\"19\">2.69<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">11\/12\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-181079<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">8109<\/td>\n<td width=\"115\" height=\"19\">2.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">11\/19\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-180363<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">716<\/td>\n<td width=\"115\" height=\"19\">2.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">11\/26\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-155554<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">24809<\/td>\n<td width=\"115\" height=\"19\">2.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">12\/03\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-167360<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">-11806<\/td>\n<td width=\"115\" height=\"19\">2.79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">12\/10\/2013<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-150029<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">17331<\/td>\n<td width=\"115\" height=\"19\">2.81<\/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 Trading News &amp; Analysis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 futures market speculators decreased their overall bearish positions in the 10-year treasury note futures after adding to bearish bets the previous week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday. The non-commercial &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/12\/15\/us-10-year-treasury-note-speculators-decrease-bearish-positions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US 10-Year Treasury Note Speculators cut bearish positions to lowest level in 6 weeks&#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-39107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39107","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=39107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}