RBOB Gasoline COT Report
The Commitment of Traders (COT) report shows how the largest traders are positioned in RBOB Gasoline futures each week. The CFTC splits open interest into speculators (managed money) and commercial hedgers, so you can see who is leaning which way. Tracking when RBOB Gasoline speculative positioning reaches an extreme, and how speculators line up against commercials, is one of the most widely followed sentiment tools in futures.
In energy, commercials are producers, refiners and merchants hedging output and crack spreads, while speculators chase momentum. Crowded speculative extremes in RBOB Gasoline frequently coincide with exhaustion in the prevailing move.
How to read RBOB Gasoline positioning
A 52-week z-score measures how stretched RBOB Gasoline speculative positioning is versus the past year: a high positive reading means speculators are crowded long, a deeply negative one means crowded short. Crowded extremes often precede reversals, while the positioning regime tells you whether the current structure is trending or stretched. New to this? Start with how to read the COT report.
COTInsight scores RBOB Gasoline on nine analytical layers every week, the moment the CFTC data lands: the 52-week z-score, the 3-year COT Index, regime classification, price-versus-positioning divergence, open-interest trend and more, with up to ten years of history so you can see how today compares to every prior extreme.