By CountingPips.com — Receive our weekly COT Reports by Email US Dollar Index Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large dollar speculators raised their bearish net positions in the US
Dollar Index futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
Not exact matches
U.S. stock
index futures pared gains on the data, while the
dollar slipped against a basket of currencies.
The «
Futures Now» team discusses what is pushing the
Dollar index higher and what this means for the markets.
It rallied a bit today on some weak European data, but a closely watched
dollar futures index is close to a 4 - year low.
COTs Timer is a financial blog focused on interpreting the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission's («CFTC») weekly Commitments of Traders («COT») report, which provides trillions of
dollars in positions in more than 200 markets, including gold, crude oil, natural gas, silver, forex, and equity
indices.
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Futures Singapore offers cross-currency futures contracts, including the Mini U.S Dollar Index ® and a range of Asian currency
Futures Singapore offers cross-currency
futures contracts, including the Mini U.S Dollar Index ® and a range of Asian currency
futures contracts, including the Mini U.S
Dollar Index ® and a range of Asian currency pairs.
Using daily data for 52
futures series (20 commodities, eight 10 - year government bonds, nine currency exchange rates versus the U.S.
dollar and 15 country stock
indexes) during January 1990 through January 2016, he finds that: Keep Reading
Using daily levels of the S&P 500
Index, an index of 10 - year Treasuries, nearest - month gold and oil futures and the Federal Reserve Nominal Trade Weighted Effective Index for the dollar from January 1985 through October 2009 (nearly 25 years), they find that: Keep Re
Index, an
index of 10 - year Treasuries, nearest - month gold and oil futures and the Federal Reserve Nominal Trade Weighted Effective Index for the dollar from January 1985 through October 2009 (nearly 25 years), they find that: Keep Re
index of 10 - year Treasuries, nearest - month gold and oil
futures and the Federal Reserve Nominal Trade Weighted Effective
Index for the dollar from January 1985 through October 2009 (nearly 25 years), they find that: Keep Re
Index for the
dollar from January 1985 through October 2009 (nearly 25 years), they find that: Keep Reading
On October 19th 1987, the stock
index futures market was flooded with billions of
dollars worth of sell orders within minutes, causing both the
futures and stock markets to crash.
Analyzing some of the key events in today's market news:
Dollar Index hits 92.00, WTI consolidates above $ 68, US
futures edge lower and lastly, reflecting whether «sell in May and go away» still apply.
Specifically, they relate spot West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil price to: the U.S.
dollar exchange rate versus a basket of developed market currencies; Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) return; U.S. short - term interest rate; the S&P 500 options - implied volatility
index (VIX); and, open interest in the NYMEX crude oil
futures (as an indication of financialization of the oil market).
In their March 2018 paper entitled «Pairs Trading, Technical Analysis and Data Snooping: Mean Reversion vs Momentum», Ioannis Psaradellis, Jason Laws, Athanasios Pantelous and Georgios Sermpinis test a variety of technical trading rules for long - short trading of 15 commodity
futures, equity
indexes and currency pairs (all versus the U.S.
dollar) frequently used on trading websites or offered by financial market firms.
The
Dollar Index also declined 0.39 % to 95.461 in the same period while the crude oil
futures have plunged 5.32 %.
ICE's FX
futures are best known for its ICE US
Dollar Index.
A combination of market positioning, such as record net - long euro
futures positioning, rising U.S. interest rates, and diverging economic performances (such as data surprising
indexes), seems to have encouraged the
dollar's recent advance, helping our hedged positions.
First let's define some data, when I say Oil I am referring to the WTI Crude
Futures, Continuous Contract # 1 and for the U.S.D. I am using the Trade Weighted U.S.
Dollar index (https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DTWEXM).
One of the most reliable charts to monitor when trading gold ETFs, spot gold
futures, or even physical gold coins, is the US
Dollar Index ETF ($ UUP).
McMahon, R - Syracuse, did not say whether he supports the
dollar amounts proposed, but said he does support setting up a process that ties
future salary increases to the Consumer Price
Index.
Most traders watch the blog's Guesstimates, which provide commentary on S&P e-mini
futures, the QQQ
index, euro -
dollar,
dollar - yen, crude oil, gold, silver, and other popular securities.
The investment seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Deutsche Bank Long US
Dollar Futures index.
Weights of the underlying
futures contracts in the
Index expressed as a percentage of the total absolute
dollar exposure of the portfolio.
Dollar Rally Pressuring Equities An intraday rally in the
Dollar is helping to pressure U.S. stock
index futures.
Most traders watch the blog's Guesstimates, which provide commentary on S&P e-mini
futures, the QQQ
index, euro -
dollar,
dollar - yen, crude oil, gold, silver, and other popular securities.
Dollar Strength Weighing on Stocks The threat of higher interest rates because of the better than expected U.S. Retail Sales Report, helped knock the stock
index futures off their highs.
To investigate, we relate the return series of three exchange - traded funds: (1) the
futures - based PowerShares DB US
Dollar Index Bullish (UUP); (2) the spot - based SPDR Gold Shares (GLD); and, (3) the spot - based United States Oil (USO).
This often includes a focus on cost reduction (fees), using low cost
index funds / ETF's, developing a plan of equal purchases over a period of time (
dollar cost averaging) and developing a learning plan for
future education.
In the case of Nadex, the underlying market could be a US or international stock
index future, a commodity like gold or crude oil, a currency pair like the Euro - US
dollar, or even an economic event like the weekly jobless claims number.
The value of a single CME
futures contract is five times the value of the Bitcoin Reference Rate
Index, which is quoted in US
dollars per one bitcoin.
Most traders watch the blog's Guesstimates, which provide commentary on S&P e-mini
futures, the QQQ
index, euro -
dollar,
dollar - yen, crude oil, gold, silver, and other popular securities.
Most traders watch the blog's Guesstimates, which provide commentary on S&P e-mini
futures, the QQQ
index, euro -
dollar,
dollar - yen, crude oil, gold, silver, and other popular securities.