CFTC Disaggregated · 475+ Futures Markets · Institutional Positioning Intelligence

The smart money is already positioned.
Now you can see exactly where.

Every week, institutional traders reveal their hand — hedge funds building exposure, commercials hedging against the trend, swap dealers offloading risk. The CFTC disaggregated report captures all of it, participant by participant, across every regulated futures 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 475+ markets, automatically.

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10 years Of positioning history, always current
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5 groups Hedge funds, commercials, dealers — all separated

Institutional positioningis the most underread signal in public markets.

The disaggregated COT 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 on the other. When these groups reach historical extremes, the market 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 processes that picture across 475+ markets — six layers of analysis per instrument, ten years of history, calibrated weekly. The intelligence that used to take hours of manual work is waiting the moment you open the dashboard.

What You Get

Know what the professionals are doing.

Six signals. Every market. Because one metric is never the whole picture.

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 1.5 standard deviations, 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 — which direction the crowd is moving. Seven states from Extreme Long to Neutral 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 — this divergence is 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.
The Experience

Designed for traders, not analysts.

No learning curve. No setup. The signals are waiting — you decide what to do with them.

◈ Scan
Every extreme, visible at a glance
475 markets, colour-coded by positioning intensity. The crowded ones stand out immediately. No digging, no filtering through noise — the opportunities surface on their own.
◉ Inspect
Context that builds conviction
One click reveals the full picture — 10 years of positioning history, regime state, OI trend, participant breakdown, price divergence. Everything you need to decide whether a signal is worth acting on.
⇗ Deploy
Your data, your workflow
CSV for your spreadsheet. PDF for the meeting. REST API for your model. The edge is yours to use however you work — we just make sure it's always there.
The Dashboard

Everything in one view, every week.

Institutional positioning across 475+ markets, ranked by signal strength. Sorted, scored, and ready the moment the CFTC publishes.

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COTInsight Last updated: Fri 23 May 2026 · 21:34 UTC Search markets…
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Market Z COT Idx Regime
WTI Crude Oil
Energy · alert
+2.41 78 Crowded Long
Natural Gas
Energy · alert
−2.19 12 Crowded Short
Gold
Metals · alert
−1.88 18 Crowded Short
Bitcoin
Crypto · alert
+1.82 71 Crowded Long
S&P 500 E-mini
Indices · alert
+1.58 65 Building Long
10-yr T-Note
Rates
−1.31 34 Building Short
EUR/USD
FX
+1.12 58 Neutral Long
Copper
Metals
−0.87 41 Neutral Short
WTI Crude Oil Energy · CL=F · 2026-05-20
+2.41 z-score Crowded Long COT 78 8-week streak ↑
Z-Score
+2.41
COT Idx
78
Regime
Crowded
OI Trend
Rising
Diverge
None
Sm.Spec
Extreme
Net Speculative Positioning — 52 weeks  threshold ±1.5σ
z=+1.5σ
52 weeks ago26 weeksNow
Z-Score
+2.41
52-week extreme ↑
COT Index
78 / 100
3-year percentile
Net Managed Money
+142,560
+6,240 this week
Open Interest
1,847,200
+12k vs last week
Spec Streak
8 weeks ↑
consecutive net adds
Price vs Pos.
Aligned
no divergence
Participant Breakdown  net contracts (% of OI)
Managed Money
+142k
Prod/Merchant
−108k
Swap Dealers
−57k
Other Reportable
+33k
Non-Reportable
+22k
AI Commentary Ultimate
Managed Money has held net long above +140k for 8 consecutive weeks — extreme territory at z +2.41. Historically, WTI at this z-score range reverses or underperforms over the following 4–12 weeks 68% of the time. Commercials simultaneously at their largest short in 2 years, spec–commercial divergence at maximum. Watch for any break in the positioning streak as an early exit signal.
Historical Outcomes by Z-Bucket Ultimate
Z-Range N 4W Win% 8W Win% 12W Win% 12W Avg
▶ z ≥ 2.0 (extreme long) 47 71% 68% 65% −5.1%
1.5 ≤ z < 2.0 63 58% 55% 52% −2.8%
neutral (±0.5) 128 49% 51% 50% +0.4%
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FAQ

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.
Where does the data come from, and how current is it?+
Directly from cftc.gov — the official regulator. No vendor, no intermediary. The CFTC publishes each Friday (data as of Tuesday's close) and COTInsight refreshes automatically the same weekend. You're always on the latest available figures from the authoritative source.
What is a z-score alert?+
It measures how extreme speculative net positioning is relative to the past 52 weeks. A reading above +1.5 or below −1.5 means specs are near a historical extreme — a historically reliable mean-reversion signal. Alerts fire at this threshold and are visible across the heatmap and instrument list.
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Risk notice: Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss. COTInsight provides processed public data for informational purposes only. Positioning patterns do not guarantee future price movements. Risk Disclaimer.