S&P500 Mini Non-Commercial Speculator Positions:
Large stock market speculators boosted their bullish net positions in the S&P500 Mini futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders (COT) data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday.
The non-commercial futures contracts of S&P500 Mini futures, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of 179,701 contracts in the data reported through Tuesday August 14th. This was a weekly boost of 14,462 contracts from the previous week which had a total of 165,239 net contracts.
The speculative contracts had fallen for the previous three weeks before this week’s rebound. The overall speculative standing remains very bullish and is back over the +170,000 net contract level for the seventh time out of the past ten weeks.
S&P500 Mini Commercial Positions:
The commercial traders position, hedgers or traders engaged in buying and selling for business purposes, totaled a net position of -302,680 contracts on the week. This was a weekly fall of -25,976 contracts from the total net of -276,704 contracts reported the previous week.
SPY (NYSE:SPY) ETF:
Over the same weekly reporting time-frame, from Tuesday to Tuesday, the SPY ETF, which tracks the price of S&P500 Index, closed at approximately $283.90 which was a fall of $-1.68 from the previous close of $285.58, according to unofficial market data.