Gold Non-Commercial Positions:
Large speculators and traders renewed their recent bearishness in the gold futures markets last 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 Comex gold futures, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of 107,041 contracts in the data reported through January 17th. This was a weekly change of -2,441 contracts from the previous week which had a total of 109,482 net contracts.
Gold speculative positions have now fallen nine out of the past ten weeks.
Gold Commercial Positions:
The commercial traders position, categorized by the CFTC as hedgers or traders engaged in buying and selling for business purposes, totaled a net position of -123,111 contracts last week. This is a weekly change of 2,705 contracts from the total net of -125,816 contracts reported the previous week.
Gold ETF:
Over the same weekly reporting time-frame, from Tuesday to Tuesday, the GLD (NYSE:GLD) ETF, which tracks the price of gold, closed at approximately $115.85 which was a rise of $2.70 from the previous close of $113.15, according to ETF financial market data.