{"id":40305,"date":"2014-02-23T15:52:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=40305"},"modified":"2014-02-23T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T20:52:02","slug":"us-10-year-treasury-note-speculators-bearish-positions-declined-sharply-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/02\/23\/us-10-year-treasury-note-speculators-bearish-positions-declined-sharply-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"US 10-Year Treasury Note Speculators sharply cut their bearish positions last week in COT data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\"><strong>By CountingPips.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Report<\/strong><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/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\/2014\/02\/10year1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40307\" alt=\"10year\" src=\"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/10year1.png\" width=\"661\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Large Speculators bearish positions fall to lowest level since January 14th<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>10 Year Treasuries:\u00a0<\/strong>Large futures market traders sharply decreased their overall bearish positions in the 10-year treasury note futures last week to the lowest level in over four weeks, 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 -57,144 contracts in the data reported for February 18th. This was a change of +85,389 contracts from the previous week\u2019s total of -142,533 net contracts that was registered on February 11th. This latest data brings bearish contracts of the 10-year note to the lowest level since January 14th when contracts were -50,790.<\/p>\n<p>Over the same reporting time-frame, from Tuesday February 11th to Tuesday February 18th, the yield on the 10-Year treasury note edged lower from 2.75 to a yield of 2.71, according to data from the United States Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: 1px dotted #fff;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Last <strong>6<\/strong> Weeks of Large Trader Non-Commercial Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"363\">\n<colgroup>\n<col width=\"72\" \/>\n<col width=\"61\" \/>\n<col width=\"75\" \/>\n<col width=\"97\" \/>\n<col width=\"58\" \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">Date<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">Open\u00a0Interest<\/td>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">Net\u00a0Large\u00a0Specs<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">Weekly\u00a0Change<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">10\u00a0Year\u00a0Yield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">01\/14\/2014<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">2197399<\/td>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">-50790<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">77255<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">2.88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">01\/21\/2014<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">2232869<\/td>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">-58391<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-7601<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">2.85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">01\/28\/2014<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">2334109<\/td>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">-117759<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-59368<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">2.77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">02\/04\/2014<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">2382511<\/td>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">-135301<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-17542<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">2.64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">02\/11\/2014<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">2410966<\/td>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">-142533<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">-7232<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">2.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"72\" height=\"19\">02\/18\/2014<\/td>\n<td width=\"61\" height=\"19\">2430028<\/td>\n<td width=\"75\" height=\"19\">-57144<\/td>\n<td width=\"97\" height=\"19\">85389<\/td>\n<td width=\"58\" height=\"19\">2.71<\/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\/forex-apps-store\/\"><strong>Forex Trading Apps<\/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 Large Speculators bearish positions fall to lowest level since January 14th 10 Year Treasuries:\u00a0Large futures market traders sharply decreased their overall bearish positions in the 10-year treasury note futures last week to the lowest level in over four weeks, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2014\/02\/23\/us-10-year-treasury-note-speculators-bearish-positions-declined-sharply-last-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US 10-Year Treasury Note Speculators sharply cut their bearish positions last week in COT data&#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-40305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40305","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=40305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}