About CountingPips

Author Archive | CountingPips

EUR/USD continues the downtrend, looking at 1.2700 next

The Euro continues to get sold off heavily again in today’s forex trading as Greece talks for a unity government collapsed today. Greece will now have to hold new elections and their is loud speculation of the Greeks leaving the euro currency. The EUR/USD fell to the lowest level since the middle of January and …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Currency Speculators add to US Dollar long positions. Australian dollar longs fall sharply

By CountingPips.com The latest Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures speculators raised their overall US dollar long positions last week for the first time in four weeks as speculators increased their euro short positions to the highest level since February and Australian …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Currency Speculators cut US Dollar longs for 3rd week. Canadian Dollar positions surge higher

By CountingPips.com The latest Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures speculators decreased their overall US dollar long positions last week for a third consecutive week while Canadian dollar positions showed the largest upward movement and reached their highest position in over a …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Currency Speculators cut US Dollar longs, turn bullish on British Pound positions for first time since August

By CountingPips.com The latest Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures speculators decreased their overall US dollar long positions last week for a second consecutive week while British pound sterling positions turned positive for the first time since August. Non-commercial futures traders, including …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Forex: Currency Speculators trim US Dollar positions while Euro shorts rise. Japanese Yen, Aussie positions gain

By CountingPips.com The latest Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures speculators decreased their overall US dollar long positions last week while euro positions declined for a second straight week to the lowest level in two months. Non-commercial futures traders, including hedge funds …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Forex: Currency Speculators raise US Dollar long positions. Euro, Pound, Aussie positions drop

By CountingPips.com The latest Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures speculators added to their overall US dollar long positions last week to the highest level since last June while euro positions deteriorated to a net amount of over 100,000 short contracts. Non-commercial …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Forex: Currency Futures Speculators cut USD long positions. Canadian Loonie longs rise to highest level since May 2011

By CountingPips.com The latest Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures speculators cut back on their overall US dollar long positions last week while Japanese yen positions rebounded after falling for six consecutive weeks and Canadian dollar long positions rose to their highest …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

David Song of DailyFx shares his views on Currency themes, the EUR/USD & USD/JPY in Forex Interview

By CountingPips.com Today, I am pleased to share a forex interview and commentary on the latest major forex events and trends with currency strategist David Song from DailyFx.com. David is an active trader and studied macroeconomic policies under a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis while attending the Zicklin School of …

Read full story Comments { 0 }

Forex: Currency Futures Speculators trim USD positions. Sharply raise shorts of Japanese Yen

By CountingPips.com The latest Commitments of Traders (COT) report, released on Friday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), showed that large futures speculators decreased their overall US dollar long positions last week while Japanese yen positions fell sharply for a sixth consecutive week and declined to their lowest level in almost a year. Non-commercial …

Read full story Comments { 0 }