COT Reports

The CFTC Commitment of Traders (COT) report is a weekly breakdown of futures market positioning published every Friday by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. It reveals how three groups of traders are positioned across every major futures market: commercial hedgers (producers, processors and users of the underlying asset), large speculators (hedge funds, commodity trading advisors and managed money), and small non-reportable traders. Together these categories show who owns the long and short side of every liquid futures contract traded in the United States — across currencies, metals, energy, grains, softs, livestock, equity indices, interest rates and cryptocurrencies. Cotdata.net organises this data into interactive charts, a COT Index that ranks current positioning against recent history, and alignment signals that flag statistically unusual setups. Browse the categories below to explore positioning in each market, or drill into individual instruments for full history, percentile bands and weekly positioning changes. COT data is a core input for macro traders, commodity analysts and systematic funds who want to understand whether the current price trend is supported by genuine fund conviction or is vulnerable to a positioning unwind.