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Where can I find Commitment of Traders report?
How to Find the COT Report
- Open up the address below in your web browser. (
- Once the page has loaded, scroll down a couple of pages to the “Current Legacy Report” and click on “Short Format” under “Futures Only” on the “Chicago Mercantile Exchange” row to access the most recent COT report.
How do you read a Commitment of Traders report?
The COT report shows how committed the large institutional “non-commercial” traders are to long or short positions within each currency pair. If traders are net short, the COT graph will show a negative position and if they are net long the COT graph will show a positive position.
What is a cot chart?
The Commitment of Traders (COT) reports provide a breakdown of each Tuesday’s open interest for markets in which 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the CFTC. Commitment of Traders (COT) charts are updated each Friday at 3pm CT.
How do I access COT data?
How to Access the COT Reports
- Go to www.CFTC.gov.
- Select Market Reports.
- Select Commitments of Traders.
- The next page will allow you to view the COT Reports with choices to filter the data by the following, as well as choose whether you would like to view the data in a long or short format:
How often does COT report come out?
The weekly reports for Futures-Only Commitments of Traders and for Futures-and-Options-Combined Commitments of Traders are released every Friday at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time. Reports are available in both a short and long format. The short report shows open interest separately by reportable and nonreportable positions.
How do I use Commitment of Traders report in forex?
One way to use the COT report in your trading is to find extreme net long or net short positions. Finding these positions may signal that a market reversal is just around the corner because if everyone is long a currency, who is left to buy? No one. And if everyone is short a currency, who is left to sell?
Who are non-commercial traders?
A non-commercial trader is someone who has no direct business interests in the commodity that they are trading. Instead, a non-commercial trader takes a speculative market position only to profit from price moves in the market.
What does open interest mean in COT report?
Open interest is the total of all futures and/or option contracts entered into and not yet offset by a transaction, by delivery, by exercise, etc. The aggregate of all long open interest is equal to the aggregate of all short open interest.
What is open interest vs volume?
Volume refers to the number of trades completed each day and is an important measure of strength and interest in a particular trade. Open interest reflects the number of contracts that are held by traders and investors in active positions, ready to be traded.
What is COT report spread?
Spreading. For the futures-only report, spreading measures the extent to which each non-commercial trader holds equal long and short futures positions. For the options-and-futures-combined report, spreading measures the extent to which each non-commercial trader holds equal combined-long and combined-short positions.