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Latest Commitment of Traders positions (Equities and Bonds) as at March 13th 2018

CFTC commitment of traders report was released on Friday (16th March) and cover positions up to Tuesday (13th March).   COT report is not a complete presenter of entire market positions; however, it represents a good chunk of institutional traders, to feel what’s going on in capital markets and how big traders are aligned.

Kindly note, in some cases, numbers are rounded to nearest decimal.

  • 2 year U.S. Treasury:

Speculators increased short positions last week and by 26,469 contracts that led to a net position of -119.3K contracts.

  • 5 year U.S. Treasury:

5-year treasury short positions declined last week, and by 35,164 contracts that brought the net position to -454.5K contracts.

  • 10 year U.S. Treasury:

Speculators reduced short positions last week. The short positions got decreased by 90,781 contracts to -271.4K contracts.

  • S&P 500 (E-mini) –

Speculators reduced long positions last weeks. The net long positions got decreased by 6,768 contracts to +122.1K contracts.

  • Russell 2000 –

Last week, the speculators reduced long positions marginally by 66 contracts to +3.9K contracts.

  • MSCI Emerging Markets Mini-Index –

Long positions declined for a third consecutive week by 9,822 contracts that pushed the net position to +162K contracts.

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