US 10-Year Treasury Speculators added to bearish positions last week

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Weekly CFTC Net Speculator Report

10 Year Treasuries: Large trader and speculators added to their bearish positions last week for 10-year treasury notes in the futures markets and pushed 10-year notes to their most bearish position of 2013. 10-year treasury non-commercial contracts totaled a net position of -110,825 contracts in the data reported for August 27th. This is a drop of -85,985 contracts from the previous week’s total of -24,840 net contracts on August 20th.

In the same time-frame, the yield on the 10 Year treasury note declined from 2.82 on Tuesday August 20th to 2.72 on Tuesday August 27th, according to US Treasury data.


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Last 6 Weeks of Large Trader Positions

DateNet Large SpecsWeekly Change10 Year Yield
07/23/2013-32312-500472.53
07/30/201311903442152.63
08/06/2013-20096-319992.67
08/13/2013-66432-463362.71
08/20/2013-24840415922.82
08/27/2013-110825-859852.72



*COT explanation: The weekly cot 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).




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Large Forex Speculators raise US Dollar bullish bets for 1st time in 6 weeks

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The weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures traders and currency speculators added to their bullish bets of the US dollar last week for the first time in six weeks.

Non-commercial large futures traders, including hedge funds and large International Monetary Market speculators, raised their overall US dollar long positions to a total of $15.28 billion as of Tuesday August 27th. This was an increase of $2.28 billion from the total long position of $13.54 billion that was registered on August 20th, according to calculations by Reuters that calculates this amount by the total of US dollar contracts against the combined contracts of the euro, British pound, Japanese yen, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar and the Swiss franc.

This was the first rise in US dollar overall long positions since July 16th when long bets rose by $1.67 billion to a total of $29.61 billion.

COT explanation: The weekly cot 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 non-reportable traders (usually small traders/speculators).

Individual Currencies Large Speculators Positions in Futures:

The large non-commercial net positions for each of the individual major currencies directly against the US dollar last week saw weekly increases for the euro, British pound sterling and the Swiss franc while the Japanese yen, New Zealand dollar, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar and the Mexican peso had declining numbers of large speculator positions for the week.

Notable changes:

Euro net speculative contracts improved for the seventh straight week and are now at their highest level of 2013. Canadian dollar positions have fallen to their lowest level since June 18th while Mexican peso positions dropped to the lowest level since July 2nd.

Individual Currency Charts:


EuroFX:

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Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: EuroFX

DateLarge Trader Net PositionsWeekly Change
07/23/2013-279009265
07/30/2013-850419396
08/06/2013606114565
08/13/2013160579996
08/20/20133674620689
08/27/2013400813335



British Pound Sterling:

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Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: Pound Sterling

DateLg Trader NetWeekly Change
07/23/2013-49653-12207
07/30/2013-49463190
08/06/2013-460333430
08/13/2013-46521-488
08/20/2013-395226999
08/27/2013-382261296



Japanese Yen:

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Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: Yen

DateLg Trader NetWeekly Change
07/23/2013-87496-1734
07/30/2013-821355361
08/06/2013-802131922
08/13/2013-744625751
08/20/2013-717212741
08/27/2013-78353-6632



Swiss Franc:

chf

Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: Franc

DateLg Trader NetWeekly Change
07/23/2013-5433-464
07/30/2013-12614172
08/06/2013-325936
08/13/201321362461
08/20/2013291-1845
08/27/2013402111



Canadian Dollar:

cad

Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: CAD

DateLg Trader NetWeekly Change
07/23/2013-167583285
07/30/2013-114345324
08/06/2013-10436998
08/13/2013-90811355
08/20/2013-9544-463
08/27/2013-24959-15415



Australian Dollar:

aud

Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: AUD

DateLg Trader NetWeekly Change
07/23/2013-639826704
07/30/2013-72573-8591
08/06/2013-76779-4206
08/13/2013-6272114058
08/20/2013-63183-462
08/27/2013-71117-7934



New Zealand Dollar:

nzd

Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: NZD

DateLg Trader NetWeekly Change
07/23/2013-1846898
07/30/2013-5201326
08/06/2013-1539-1019
08/13/20131971736
08/20/201323902193
08/27/2013252-2138



Mexican Peso:

mxn

Last Six Weeks of Large Trader Positions: MXN

DateLg Trader NetWeekly Change
07/23/2013197998433
07/30/2013248885089
08/06/2013321257237
08/13/2013363204195
08/20/201336131-189
08/27/20137198-28933

The Commitment of Traders report is published every Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and shows futures positions data that was reported as of the previous Tuesday (3 days behind).

Each currency contract is a quote for that currency directly against the U.S. dollar, a net short amount of contracts means that more speculators are betting that currency to fall against the dollar and a net long position expect that currency to rise versus the dollar.

(The graphs overlay the forex spot closing price of each Tuesday when COT trader positions are reported for each corresponding spot currency pair.)

See more information and explanation on the weekly COT report from the CFTC website.

 

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