forex CFTC’s Latest Commitment of Traders Report

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As of the week of December 17^th , 2019, net long orders of non-commercial USDX futures decreased by 10,000 lots to 11,600 lots, falling for the 11^th consecutive week. Over the past 11 weeks, speculators have reduced a total of 31,000 lots in USD long positions, with a decline of more than 10,000 lots in this week alone. Since June 12^th, 2018, the current long position is at the lowest in 79 weeks .

 

In addition to the USDX, speculators are betting on bearish trend of both Canadian dollar and Australian dollar, as report showed CAD net long orders dropped by 9,550 to 11,000 lots and net shorts of AUD increased by 9,770 to 46,000 lots.

 

With the listing of Saudi Aramco, speculators heavily stepped up long orders in crude oil by 67,000 lots last week and added 41,000 lots this week. In the past two weeks, long bets have increased by more than 100,000 lots.

 

Speculators again increased long positions in gold this week, with net longs growing by 15,000 lots to 286,000 lots. For large speculators, the trend of gold is still hard to grasp, and their attitudes have been swinging back and forth in the past 6 weeks. Since October 4^th, 2019, net longs in gold has been fluctuating between 253,000 and 290,000.

Edited December 24, 2019 by Anzo Lim