S&P500 Non-Commercial Positions:
Large speculators and traders boosted their net positions in the S&P500 stock 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 S&P500 futures, traded by large speculators and hedge funds, totaled a net position of 15,031 contracts in the data reported through December 13th. This was a weekly change of 7,618 contracts from the previous week which had a total of 7,413 net contracts.
S&P500 speculative positions are now at the highest level since September 15th when net positions totaled +16,580 contracts.
S&P500 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 -4,564 contracts last week. This is a weekly change of -8,820 contracts from the total net of 4,256 contracts reported the previous week.
S&P500 Stock Market Index:
Over the same weekly reporting time-frame, from Tuesday to Tuesday, the S&P500 index closed at approximately 2271.72 which was a rise of 59.49 from the previous close of 2212.23, according to market data from Yahoo Finance.
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