US dollar bullish bets rose to $18.78 billion from $17.80 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 8 and released on Friday October 11. Increase in dollar bullish bests continued as US economy added 136,000 new jobs in September after 164,000 new jobs in August, and unemployment rate dropped to 3.5% from 3.7% in August.
CFTC Sentiment vs Exchange Rate
| October 08 2019 | Bias | Ex RateTrend | Position $ mln | Weekly Change |
| CAD | bullish | positive | 399 | -80 |
| AUD | bearish | positive | -3158 | 347 |
| EUR | bearish | positive | -10327 | -1313 |
| GBP | bearish | positive | -5592 | 329 |
| CHF | bearish | negative | -1391 | 61 |
| JPY | bullish | negative | 1286 | -329 |
| Total | -18783 |