US dollar bullish bets fell to $15.31 billion from $20.77 billion against the major currencies during the one week period, according to the report of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) covering data up to October 22 and released on Friday October 25. The ICE US Dollar index USDX continued falling on weak US economic data including manufacturing sector performance and decline of retail sales in September of 0.3% over month when 0.3% increase was expected.
CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate
| October 22 2019 | Bias | Ex RateTrend | Position $ mln | Weekly Change |
| CAD | bullish | positive | 2550 | 1569 |
| AUD | bearish | negative | -3014 | 201 |
| EUR | bearish | negative | -7099 | 3264 |
| GBP | bearish | negative | -4218 | 1599 |
| CHF | bearish | negative | -1432 | 166 |
| JPY | bearish | negative | -2093 | -1330 |
| Total | -15306 |