Softs — COT Reports
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Soft commodity COT reports cover Coffee, Cocoa, Sugar, Cotton and Orange Juice — markets driven by tropical weather, currency moves in producer countries, and concentrated global supply chains. Speculative positioning in softs can reach dramatic extremes around Brazilian frosts, West African cocoa crop scares and Indian sugar export policy shifts. Commercial hedgers (roasters, chocolate manufacturers, millers and textile mills) lock in forward prices, and their positioning reflects physical market expectations. The COT Index for softs highlights when fund enthusiasm has run ahead of fundamentals — an early warning for sharp reversals in these highly volatile markets.