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COT Report Analysis · Commitment of Traders Signals · COT Index & Z-Score Extremes · Managed Money Positioning
Every week, institutional traders reveal their hand: hedge funds building exposure, commercials hedging against the trend, swap dealers offloading risk. The CFTC disaggregated COT report captures all of it, participant by participant, across every regulated market. Whether you trade with institutional conviction or fade crowded extremes, positioning structure tells you more than price alone ever will. COTInsight turns that intelligence into clear signals across 350+ markets.
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CFTC futures and options, ICE Futures Europe and 19 EU contracts from ESMA
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On every market, every week, on every plan, plus price divergence where a price series exists. Not a single number to interpret alone
20 years
Back to the first modern CFTC report in June 2006. Nobody can go deeper on these reports
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Historical Outcome Analyzer
What this market did last time. Every extreme scored against that market's own record, so you see what actually followed at 4, 8 and 12 weeks, with the sample size beside it. Ultimate
Live now: this week's most stretched marketsCFTC data as of 2026-09-29
6 of 89 markets at a positioning extreme this week. The full board, all nine layers and the history are inside.
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Institutional positioning across 350+ markets, ranked by signal strength. Sorted, scored, and ready.
COTInsight
CFTC data as of 2026-09-29
| Market | Z | COT Idx | Regime |
|---|---|---|---|
Crude Oil (WTI) Energy | +2.20 | 100 | Extreme Long |
Natural Gas Energy | -1.69 | 10 | Building Short |
Euro FX (EUR/USD) FX | -1.64 | 9 | Building Short |
Copper Metals | +1.28 | 97 | Neutral |
Bitcoin Crypto | +1.07 | 92 | Building Long |
Gold Metals | +0.58 | 52 | Building Long |
S&P 500 Indices | +0.36 | 44 | Flip Zone |
10-Year Treasury Note Rates | +0.29 | 34 | Flip Zone |
Crude Oil (WTI)Energy · Front-month futures
+2.20 z-scoreExtreme LongCOT 100
Z-score
+2.20
COT idx
100
Regime
Extreme Long
OI trend
Contracting
Divergence
None
Small spec
Extreme Long
Net speculative positioning, 52 weeks
52 weeks ago26 weeksNow
Net speculative
+8,234
contracts held long minus short
Open interest
979,269
all contracts outstanding
Spec streak
6-week streak ↑
consecutive weeks one way
Participant breakdown net contracts, short left of centre, long right
Managed Money
+8,234
Swap Dealers
-130k
Producer/Merchant
+103k
Other Reportables
+15k
Non-Reportable
+3,826
Historical outcomes by z-bucket Ultimate
| Z-range | N | 4W higher | 8W higher | 12W higher | 12W avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ z ≥ 2.0 (extreme long) | 33 | 46% | 58% | 48% | -3.9% |
| 1.5 ≤ z < 2.0 (strong long) | 63 | 43% | 43% | 40% | +4.2% |
| 0.5 ≤ z < 1.5 (mild long) | 187 | 54% | 52% | 55% | +3.3% |
| -0.5 ≤ z < 0.5 (neutral) | 207 | 59% | 58% | 56% | +4.7% |
| -1.5 ≤ z < -0.5 (mild short) | 224 | 50% | 49% | 47% | +0.2% |
| -2.0 ≤ z < -1.5 (strong short) | 95 | 54% | 62% | 56% | +2.9% |
| z < -2.0 (extreme short) | 59 | 42% | 39% | 51% | -3.8% |
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Every market gets scored on the same eight layers and sorted by how stretched it is, so the crowded ones come to you instead of you hunting for them. Contracts that stopped reporting are hidden by default, so everything you see actually traded this week.
~350 markets8 layers eachsorted by extremity
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Open any market and the work is already finished. Positioning against price across twenty years of history, the regime it is sitting in, who holds the exposure and how much of the open interest that is, whether index money is padding the commercial number, and what this market did the last time it looked like this. No spreadsheets, no maths, no digging through raw releases.
20 years of historyevery trader groupsample sizes shown
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The z-score, COT Index and regime state plot right under the price on your own TradingView chart, so positioning sits exactly where you make decisions. CSV for your model, PDF for the meeting, a REST API to wire it into your own system, and the full archive if you want to test the idea against twenty years of record before you risk a cent.
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COT Report analysis:the most underread signal in public markets.
The CFTC Disaggregated Commitment of Traders report separates the players who move markets from those who follow them. Managed Money, hedge funds and CTAs running systematic and discretionary strategies, on one side. Commercials with structural hedging needs, and the swap dealers who intermediate them, on the other. When a group reaches a historical extreme, the positioning structure is saying something. Trend followers look for institutional accumulation confirming a move. Contrarians look for the overcrowded side that's about to unwind. Both strategies start with the same data.
COTInsight turns that raw report into a decision surface across 350+ markets, energy, metals, grains, softs, livestock, FX, equity indices, rates and crypto, plus 19 EU contracts from ESMA's weekly position reports. Every instrument is scored on eight analytical layers, every week: a 52-week positioning z-score, a 3-year COT Index, an eight-state regime classifier, momentum and streak, open-interest trend, small-speculator extremes, the full participant breakdown, and category concentration showing which participant group dominates the book and what share of open interest it holds, with index-trader positions separated out on the 13 Supplemental agricultural markets. Where a price series exists, a ninth layer flags price-vs-positioning divergence. Ultimate adds the layers that turn a reading into a decision: historical outcome statistics showing how often price was actually higher after each z-score bucket, positioning structure showing whether the position sits in a few large hands or is spread wide, ranked against the contract's own history, plus how many speculators hold it wherever the CFTC discloses that count, options exposure showing how much of the read comes from the options leg, the forward curve, three Radars reading WTI, natural gas, gasoline and diesel against weekly EIA data, corn, soybeans and wheat against USDA's monthly WASDE balance sheet, and Dutch TTF gas against EU storage, the positioning cycle with what followed each phase on record, an AI analyst write-up of every flagged market, the TradingView indicator on your own chart, VS comparison and a REST API. Ten years of weekly history on Pro, twenty on Ultimate, recalibrated every Friday the moment the new report drops. The work that used to take hours of spreadsheets is already done when you open the dashboard. Learn how to read the COT report →
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Guides to reading the CFTC Commitments of Traders report: z-score and COT Index normalisation and what the lookback window does to it, positioning regimes, price versus positioning divergence, crowded trades, index traders in the Supplemental report, the Friday release schedule, and measured studies of what actually follows a positioning extreme. Browse all articles.
Begin with the report itself: what the CFTC publishes, when it lands, and how to normalise it.
Guide
How to Read the COT Report
Step-by-step guide to reading CFTC Commitment of Traders data, net positioning, Managed Money, z-scores.
Pillar guide
How to Trade the COT Report
The full practical guide: which group to read in each market, a seven-step read, five setups with what to look for, forex specifics, and the mistakes that cost the most.
Guide
When Is the COT Report Released?
The CFTC schedule in full, the Friday 3:30 PM ET release, why the data is as of the prior Tuesday, and how federal holidays delay it.
Guide
COT Report Weekly Summary
The five checks worth making every Friday, a worked summary of a real week, and where to read the report today, including a free weekly email.
Data guide
COT Report Historical Data
Where COT history comes from, why the raw CFTC files are hard to use, and the fastest way to get clean history into Excel.
Guide
COT Z-Score Explained
What the COT z-score is, how to interpret ±1.5 and ±2.0 thresholds, and how to use it as a contrarian signal.
Guide
Commercial vs Non-Commercial Positioning
Who the commercials and non-commercials are, why hedgers are the smart money, and how the Disaggregated and TFF reports split Managed Money, Producer/Merchant, and Leveraged Funds.
Guide
Managed Money in the COT Report
Who the funds are, why their number differed from non-commercials by 69% in gold, and 20 years of data showing they follow price rather than lead it.
Guide
COT Index Explained
The Williams formula, and what the lookback window does to it. Gold reads 100 on 26 weeks and 62 on three years, and the 26-week setting pins at a boundary in one reading out of five.
Regimes, divergence, crowding, and the failure modes that catch people out.
Guide
COT Regime Detection Explained
How the eight positioning states (Accumulating, Distributing, Extreme, Building, Flip Zone, Neutral) turn z-score, flow, and momentum into one decision-ready label.
Guide
Open Interest Explained
What it counts, how it differs from volume, and the census showing spread positions average 29% of open interest across 35 markets.
Guide
Futures Only vs Combined COT Reports
The CFTC publishes each main report with and without options. On 103 markets the COT Index moved a median of half a point, but gold and the euro moved 8 to 12.
Guide
COT Divergence Explained
When price makes a new high or low but speculative positioning does not confirm it. Bullish and bearish divergence, why it beats a raw extreme, and how to avoid the false signals.
Guide
What Happens After a COT Extreme
Speculative positioning hits a multi-year extreme. What follows, how long it takes, and why an extreme on its own is a condition rather than a trading signal.
Guide
Is This Trend Crowded?
Crowding is the risk that everyone who wants to be in a trade is already in it. How to measure that from the COT report, and how crowded differs from simply extreme.
Guide
Why the COT Report Gave a False Signal
The six reasons a COT reading fails: wrong normalisation, the wrong cohort, index roll and spread distortion, reporting lag, a missing catalyst, and treating a condition as a trigger.
Guide
Are Commercials Really the Smart Money?
Commercial hedgers get called smart money because they are usually positioned against the eventual turn. What that reputation is built on, where it holds, and where following them costs you.
Guide
Index Traders and the Supplemental Report
Index money is filed as commercial in the report most people read. It holds 26% of Chicago wheat open interest long. The Supplemental splits it out on 13 agricultural markets.
How positioning reads differently in currencies, energy, metals, softs, equity indices and crypto.
Guide
COT Report for Forex Traders
How to use CFTC positioning data in FX, which report, which category, and EUR/USD, GBP, JPY examples.
Guide
ICE Brent and the COT Report
The largest crude contract in the world is in no CFTC file. What most tools show instead, and the 17-point gap between them.
Guide
Trader Concentration Explained
The CFTC publishes trader counts and top-4 concentration every week. Corn and wheat both hit index 100 and were nothing alike underneath.
Guide
COT Report for Crude Oil Traders
WTI and Brent positioning, Managed Money vs producer hedging, z-score and open-interest setups, and the forward curve.
Guide
COT Report for Gold Traders
Managed Money vs swap dealers vs producer hedging, z-score setups, and reading gold positioning against the dollar and real yields.
Guide
COT Report for Silver Traders
What 609 weeks of CFTC concentration data say about the silver short, why Swap Dealers hold it rather than producers, and where Managed Money actually sits.
Guide
COT Report for Copper Traders
The metal where producers really do hold the short, a Managed Money long at the 95th percentile, and a record dealer book.
Guide
COT Report for S&P 500 Traders
Why index COT uses the TFF report, Leveraged Funds vs Asset Managers, and the basis-trade caveat most traders miss.
Guide
COT Report for Bitcoin & Crypto Traders
Which report and category to watch for CME Bitcoin and Ether, the basis-trade caveat that skews the numbers, and turning positioning into a z-score signal.
Guide
COT Report for Grain Traders
Corn, soybeans and wheat: the index-fund distortion in the commercial line, and the first week in 571 with all five core grains pinned at a three-year high.
Guide
COT Report for Sugar Traders
Sugar No. 11: which cohorts matter, why index money distorts the commercial line, and the four-week swing that produced the second most crowded reading since 2006.
Guide
COT Report for Natural Gas Traders
Why half the Managed Money book is calendar spreading, how working gas sits against its 5-year band, and why no gas cell clears our publication bar.
Guide
COT Report for Gasoline Traders
RBOB cohorts, stocks at the base of the 5-year band, the crack spread that decides the read, and the one energy inventory base rate that qualifies.
Guide
COT Report for Diesel Traders
NY Harbor ULSD is a diesel contract, not a heating contract. Distillate stocks at a five-year seasonal low, a crack at the top of its range, positioning at average.
Measured studies from our own archive, with sample sizes.
Research
How Long Does COT Extreme Positioning Last?
We measured 3,192 extreme-positioning episodes across 217 futures markets and ten years of CFTC data. The median extreme lasts three weeks, a third end after one, and 40% get more extreme first.
Research
Does the COT Report's 3-Day Lag Matter?
We delayed 2,632 extreme-positioning signals by up to four weeks and the outcome barely moved. The three-day lag is the weakest objection to COT data. What actually decides the answer is per-market context.
Guide
How Much Does the COT Report Actually Predict?
An honest account of what positioning data can and cannot forecast, why published studies disagree, and how to test the question on your own markets instead of trusting a slogan.
How the COT tools compare, what the free routes leave out, and the parts of our own stack that go past the raw report.
Comparison
Best COT Report Tools Compared
Which publishers each tool carries, how many markets it scores, what analysis sits on top, and what it costs. Every claim dated so you can re-check it.
Comparison
Free COT Tools: Tradingster, Barchart, TradingView
What each free route gives you, from Tradingster and Barchart to the CFTC's own files, where each one stops, and what a reading still needs after that.
Ultimate
COTInsight TradingView Indicator
Three-panel COT suite for TradingView, z-score, COT Index, and momentum regimes on any weekly chart.
Guide
Futures Forward Curve Explained
Contango, backwardation, calendar spreads, and how to read term structure alongside COT positioning data.
Reference
Energy Radar Field Guide
Every number on all four panels explained: the COT Index gauge, the 5-year seasonal band and what its edges mean, all 65 EIA series, and the publication rule behind the two measured base rates.
Guide
How to Read Energy Radar
A field guide to COTInsight's Ultimate Energy Radar: the WTI, natural gas, gasoline and diesel panels, the COT Index, stocks and storage vs their 5-year seasonal bands, and the two measured base rates that clear our publication bar.
Guide
How to Read Grain Radar
Corn, soybean and wheat positioning against USDA's monthly WASDE balance sheet: the four lines per crop, monthly revisions, and what the panel does not say.
Guide
How to Read Gas Radar
Dutch TTF positioning from ESMA's weekly reports against EU gas storage from GIE: the stock against its five-year band, the fill, and the weekly net injection.
Guide
Crude Oil Positioning vs Inventories
Why the WTI COT Index and EIA inventories vs their 5-year seasonal band are stronger read together, and the measured base rate we found when we tested a counter-seasonal build against what followed.
Dated reads of specific episodes, kept for the record.
Analysis
Funds Crowded Long Corn and Soybeans as USDA Trims the Corn Crop
October 2026 on Grain Radar: Managed Money at the top of its 3-year range in corn and soybeans and starting to sell, a 213 million bushel cut to the corn crop, and wheat funds turning net short.
Analysis
Europe's Gas Storage at the Floor of Its Range, Funds Short US Gas Instead
October 2026 on Gas Radar and Energy Radar: EU storage 17.5% below its 5-year average while funds trim TTF longs, and Managed Money crowded short Henry Hub on normal US storage.
Analysis
Diesel Stocks at a Five-Year Low, Funds Barely Long
September 2026 on Energy Radar: distillate and gasoline stocks at the floor of their 5-year bands, a diesel crack above $110, and Managed Money crowded into gasoline instead.
Analysis
Almost Nobody Is Short Gold
September 2026: only 12 managed money traders short COMEX gold, a count seen in 15 earlier weeks since 2006, while the net long stays mid-range.
Analysis
A Record Nasdaq Short, Covered; the Russell Pressed
Leveraged Funds built the largest Nasdaq-100 short since 2010 in August, then covered it in six weeks while adding to their Russell 2000 short.
Analysis
Funds Crowded Into the Peso and the Real
September 2026: Leveraged Funds at an extreme long in both carry currencies. The peso long was built over seven weeks; a third of the real long came in one.
Analysis
The Dollar Was a Crowded Trade (June 2026)
A descriptive read of currency positioning: Leveraged Funds at or near extremes short the euro, franc, and Canadian dollar, the yen and pound near three-year lows, and the peso the lone holdout. What a crowded long-dollar book looks like in the COT data.
Analysis
Oil in June 2026: The Hormuz MOU & the COT Data
A descriptive read of the oil market: the signed US-Iran Hormuz MOU, an SPR at a 43-year low, seven weeks of inventory draws, and what WTI, Brent, and product positioning showed in the latest COT report.
What You Get
9 COT signals per instrument, per week.
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Core
Z-Score Extreme
Your crowding alarm. When managed money gets historically one-sided, measured against the past 52 weeks, the z-score catches it and fires an alert. At 1.5σ, something is worth watching. At 2.0+, the crowd is at its most vulnerable.
Core
COT Index
Where are we in the cycle? A single number, 0 to 100, against the past three years. Above 80, the market hasn't been this long in years. Extremes at either end rarely sustain.
Core
Regime Classifier
Not just how crowded, but which direction the crowd is moving. Eight states from Extreme Long to Extreme Short capture both the position and the momentum. You know exactly where in the cycle a market sits.
Signal
Divergence Detection
Price breaks to a new high. The smart money doesn't follow. When positioning and price tell opposite stories, the setup is worth a serious look, one of the most consistent early signals in systematic COT analysis.
Signal
Open Interest Trend
Fresh money entering a move means conviction. Money leaving at a positioning extreme means the unwind may already be starting. OI context turns a crowded number into an actionable story.
Signal
Small Spec Extreme
When retail piles in on the same side as the professionals, you're looking at maximum crowding from both ends. A secondary confirmation that the trade is getting dangerously popular.
Context
Participant Breakdown
Managed Money, Commercials, Swap Dealers, Non-Reportables, net contracts and percentage of open interest, side by side. See exactly who is holding the position and how dominant each group is.
Signal
Momentum & Streak
Is the crowd still building, or quietly leaving? Whether net positioning is accelerating, decelerating or flat, and how many consecutive weeks it has been adding or reducing. A stretched reading that stopped growing three weeks ago is a different animal from one still being fed.
Context
Market Concentration
How many hands is this position in? An HHI score, which group dominates the book, and what share of open interest they hold. A crowded reading spread across many traders behaves nothing like the same number sitting with two desks.
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TradingView Integration
COT signals, directly on your charts.
Ultimate subscribers get the COTInsight indicator, an invite-only Pine Script that brings the full dashboard to any weekly TradingView chart. Z-score histogram, COT Index gauge, momentum & regime panel. 99 chart symbols auto-detected, covering 53 CFTC markets.
- ✓ Three stacked panels, Z-Score, COT Index, Momentum & Regime
- ✓ Divergence markers, streak counter, OI trend
- ✓ Futures, FX, indices, crypto, 99 symbols auto-mapped onto 53 CFTC markets
- ✓ Updated every Friday from the CFTC, the same release the dashboard reads
- ✓ Works on any TradingView plan, Free, Pro, or Premium
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COTInsight · Z-Score
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Bias: Bearish
Z: +1.87
Distributing
Z: +1.87
Distributing
+1.5
0
−1.5
COTInsight · COT Index 3yr
COT Index: 78
805020
COTInsight · Momentum & Regime
Distributing
−4 wks reducing · OI Contracting
−4 wks reducing · OI Contracting
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Ultimate exclusive
Radars
Where the crowd is leaning, and where the physical market actually is.
Two lenses, one screen, in three families. The COT Index shows where large speculators sit inside their own multi-year range. Beside it sits the physical market that contract trades on: US energy inventories, the US grain balance sheet, or EU gas storage. Both stated plainly, with their samples. The judgment stays yours.
Energy Radar · WTI, natural gas, gasoline and diesel positioning against weekly EIA data.
- ✓Four panels, 65 EIA series. Crude, gasoline, diesel, jet, heating oil, propane and gas storage in all five regions, each against its own 5-year seasonal band.
- ✓Cushing, days of supply, refinery runs, imports, exports and the product cracks against WTI.
- ✓EIA's own forecast revisions, Gulf storm watch and crude imports by country of origin.
- ✓And the forward curve beside it. Ultimate reads the full NYMEX term structure on WTI, Brent, gas and RBOB: contango, backwardation, and where the roll is building.
Grain Radar · corn, soybeans and wheat positioning against USDA's monthly WASDE balance sheet.
- ✓Four balance sheet lines per crop: stocks-to-use, US ending stocks, US exports and world ending stocks.
- ✓Monthly revisions, how each monthly outlook revised the one before, read against weekly positioning.
Gas Radar · Dutch TTF positioning against EU gas storage from GIE.
- ✓EU gas in storage against its 5-year band, the fill and the weekly net injection.
- ✓TTF positioning from ESMA's weekly Article 58 reports, the EU's counterpart to the CFTC report.
On every panel
- ✓Gauge, band strip, seasonal chart. The read lands before the table.
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Field guides: Energy · Grain · Gas
Example · WTI crude
Ultimate
CFTC disaggregated · EIA weekly · NYMEX term structure
Positioning86COT Index · crowded long
Curve−4.3%backwardation, M1–M12
Crude stocks+6.2%above the 5-yr band
Positioning · COT Index 86 of 100
0 · crowded short
crowded long · 100
Forward curve · CL
Backwardated · M1−M12 $2.70
Solid is this week, dashed is last week. A front bid into a falling back end is the roll paying to be long.
Inventories vs 5-year seasonal band
Δ week
Crude stocks
+6.2%
▲2.4
Cushing
-17.9%
▼1.1
Gasoline stocks
+1.4%
▼0.8
Distillate d/s
-2.5%
▲0.3
Propane stocks
+3.1%
▲1.9
Refinery runs
-1.8%
▼0.6
Product cracks vs WTI, with their own percentile
3-2-178th$21.40
RBOB64th$18.05
ULSD91st$28.90
Commercial crude stocks vs 5-year seasonal band
Shaded band is the 5-year range for each week of the year. Gold marks the weeks the series touched it.
Measured base rate: WTI stocks at or above the seasonal band averaged +4.83% over the next 8 weeks (independent n=40, t=+2.32).
Illustrative example, not live data
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Upgrade to Ultimate when you want the whole board: historical outcome statistics showing what this market has actually done from this reading over the next 4, 8 and 12 weeks, positioning structure revealing how many traders hold the position and how concentrated it is, so a crowded reading held by twenty hands never looks the same as one spread across two hundred, options exposure revealing how much of the headline number comes from the options leg, three Radars setting WTI, natural gas, gasoline and diesel positioning against weekly EIA data, corn, soybeans and wheat against USDA's WASDE, and Dutch TTF against EU gas storage, index-fund positions separated out of the agricultural commercial number, AI analyst insights on every flagged market, forward curve analysis reading the full term structure, contango, backwardation and where the roll is building, a futures-only view of pure positioning the way the desks read it, side-by-side VS instrument comparison, the full twenty-year archive, PDF reports, REST API access, and the exclusive COTInsight TradingView indicator on your charts. Pro shows you what the smart money is doing; Ultimate tells you what it means, where on the curve it's happening, and what usually happens next, it pays for itself the first time it keeps you on the right side of a turn.
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- ✓ 19 EU contracts from ESMA (carbon, gas, power, freight)
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Commitment of Traders, Frequently Asked Questions
Does positioning data actually work?
Markets crowd. Crowds unwind. The CFTC data shows exactly when that crowding is reaching historical extremes, not as a gut feeling, but as a measurable number across a decade of history. It won't tell you when. What it gives you is an objective read on where the weight is sitting. Macro funds have used this for decades. We just make it accessible.
What is positioning structure, and how is it different from the COT Index?
The COT Index tells you how crowded a position is. Positioning structure tells you who is holding it. Every week the CFTC publishes the number of speculative traders in each market, and its own measure of how much open interest the four and eight largest traders hold. Almost no COT tool surfaces either. COTInsight reports top-4 trader concentration ranked against that contract's own three-year history, available on 340 of the 344 markets scored on the 1 September 2026 report, plus the speculative trader count and the average position size per trader wherever the CFTC discloses them. It frequently does not: the CFTC writes a suppression marker instead of a count when too few traders hold a position to publish the number, which covered 189 of those 344 markets, and we withhold the count there rather than print a zero. Where the speculative split is suppressed we show the count of all reporting traders in the contract instead. Why it matters: on 1 September 2026 corn and wheat both read a COT Index of 100, maximum crowding, but corn's trader concentration sat in the 65th percentile of its own record while wheat's sat in the 5th. One was held in a few large hands, the other spread wide, and a dashboard showing only the index renders those two identically. Ultimate only, and descriptive: it reports market structure, it does not forecast direction.
How many markets does COTInsight cover?
About 360 markets report every week: 345 in the CFTC and ICE Futures Europe reports plus 19 EU contracts from ESMA. Behind them sit more than 600 instruments with weekly history back to 13 June 2006, the first Disaggregated and Traders in Financial Futures report the CFTC published. The gap is contracts that have stopped reporting, some as long ago as 2008; they are kept for their history, hidden by default, and one toggle in the dashboard shows them. Coverage is the CFTC Disaggregated and TFF reports, the Supplemental index-trader report on 13 agricultural markets, the ICE Futures Europe Commitments of Traders, which is reported to the UK FCA rather than the CFTC, and the weekly MiFID II Article 58 position reports that EU venues file and ESMA republishes free of charge at registers.esma.europa.eu.
Where does the data come from, and how current is it?
Directly from the regulators and exchanges themselves. No vendor, no intermediary. Most of the book comes from cftc.gov; markets that report to the UK FCA rather than the CFTC come from ICE Futures Europe's own Commitments of Traders publication. The CFTC publishes each Friday (data as of Tuesday's close) and COTInsight refreshes automatically on Friday evening. You're always on the latest available figures from the authoritative source. EU contracts come from the weekly MiFID II Article 58 position reports that EU venues file and ESMA republishes free of charge at registers.esma.europa.eu; COTInsight regroups ESMA's position categories into its own columns and calculates its own statistics from them, and ESMA does not endorse COTInsight.
Options included: commodity markets (energy, metals, grains, softs, livestock) use the CFTC's futures-and-options-combined disaggregated report, so open interest and participant positions reflect the full picture including options. Financial markets (FX, equity indices, rates, crypto) use the futures-only report, which is what the CFTC publishes for those instruments.
Options included: commodity markets (energy, metals, grains, softs, livestock) use the CFTC's futures-and-options-combined disaggregated report, so open interest and participant positions reflect the full picture including options. Financial markets (FX, equity indices, rates, crypto) use the futures-only report, which is what the CFTC publishes for those instruments.
What is the Historical Outcome Analyzer? ULTIMATE
For each instrument that has a price series, you see a table broken down by seven z-score buckets (from "z ≥ 2.0, extreme spec long" to "z < −2.0, extreme spec short"). For each bucket, the table shows how often price was higher and the average % price change at three forward horizons: 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks after the signal date. Every row means the same thing on both sides of the book: the share of past cases in which price was higher at the end of the window. N shows how many historical occurrences fell into each bucket across the full available history (up to 20 years for major instruments). Instruments without a mapped price ticker show no outcome data. This is descriptive of past data, not a forecast or guarantee.
Do I need a card for the free trial?
No. Your 7-day trial gives full dashboard access to all 350+ instruments, 10-year history, and every signal, with no payment information required at signup. CSV export is included but limited during the trial (the most-traded markets are excluded); the full CSV report covering every market is available to Pro and Ultimate subscribers. PDF reports, AI commentary, outcome stats, full historical archive, and API access are Ultimate-only features not included in the trial.
Is this investment advice?
No. COTInsight is an informational data tool only. Nothing here constitutes a trading recommendation. Read the Risk Disclaimer before subscribing.