English: One part of the "Commitment of Traders-Report" is the Open Interest which is shown in this indicator source: Quandl database. The following futures are included: year Bonds ZB year Notes ZN Soybeans ZS Soybean Meal ZM Soybean Oil ZL Corn ZC Soft Red Winter Wheat ZW Hard Red Winter Wheat KE Lean Hogs HE Live Cattle Indicators, Strategies and Libraries All Types.

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The report is prepared by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC. It is an excellent trading tool and can be used as an indicator for analyzing market sentiment. Markets are only included if 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the CFTC and the respective exchanges. Traders are grouped into categories and their holdings are aggregated.

There are 3 categories: Commercial Traders, Non-Commercial Traders large speculators and Nonreportable small speculators. Thanks to our integration with Quandle you can apply COT data on a chart. ILM COT Financials Plot. ILuvMarkets Premium Updated. COT Report Indicator. COT Net Non-Commercials vs Commercials Updated MTF Non-Repaint. Open Interest Stochastic Money Flow Index. Weiss Wave Open Interest Bars. Noldo Updated. giancapino Updated. Bitcoin COT speedometer.

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The long and short open interest shown as "Nonreportable Positions" is derived by subtracting total long and short "Reportable Positions" from the total open interest. The new report separates large traders in the financial markets into the following four categories:. The TFF report divides the financial futures market participants into the "sell side" and "buy side. These are essentially clients of the sell-side participants who use the markets to invest, hedge, manage risk, speculate or change the term structure or duration of their assets.

These participants are what are typically described as the "sell side" of the market. Though they may not predominately sell futures, they do design and sell various financial assets to clients. They tend to have matched books or offset their risk across markets and clients. Futures contracts are part of the pricing and balancing of risk associated with the products they sell and their activities.

These include large banks U. and non-U. and dealers in securities, swaps and other derivatives. The rest of the market comprises the "buy-side," which is divided into three separate categories:.

These are typically hedge funds and various types of money managers, including registered commodity trading advisors CTAs ; registered commodity pool operators CPOs or unregistered funds identified by CFTC.

The strategies may involve taking outright positions or arbitrage within and across markets. The traders may be engaged in managing and conducting proprietary futures trading and trading on behalf of speculative clients. Reportable traders that are not placed into one of the first three categories are placed into the "other reportables" category.

The traders in this category mostly are using markets to hedge business risk, whether that risk is related to foreign exchange, equities or interest rates. This category includes corporate treasuries, central banks, smaller banks, mortgage originators, credit unions and any other reportable traders not assigned to the other three categories. Source: The CFTC website. Your browser of choice has not been tested for use with Barchart.

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To use the COT Report as a volume indicator, keep your eyes on the open interest numbers of an asset. When there is a rise in the open interest of an asset, it means more people are trading the futures contract of the asset. To get better results, you can use the data from the COT report to complement your technical analysis from other forex trading tools.

The first method is the use of the spreads data on the report. A reversal may occur when the spread between commercial and non-commercial traders is wide. If the commercial traders are going heavily bullish while the non-commercials are heavily bearish, the market could experience a reversal to the uptrend. And if commercials are going short while non-commercials are going long, a reversal to the downtrend may occur. The other method involves noting where the non-commercial traders are accumulating their positions.

Remember that non-commercial traders are the big money guys that are interested in making more money. They are the ones you want to mimic. So, when you find that their positions on a certain futures contract are reversing, and a reversal might be imminent on the underlying asset. This use of the COT report is similar to how you might use a sentiment indicator, such as the Current Ratio FXSSI indicator , in a forex sentiment analysis. The image above is the COT report for the 2nd of June, Look at the NZDUSD chart around that time.

As you can see, the currency pair just came from a downtrend and is making a reversal to the uptrend at about the same time. As we always say, never rely on one tool or indicator to decide your trades. Rather, let your tools come together to give you a trading signal. The same applies to using the COT report to trade forex. Instead, use it in combination with your technical analysis tools to help you get the best out of it.

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Commitment of Traders COT charts are updated each Friday at 3pm CT. Forex commitment of traders reports are based on the corresponding futures contracts traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. View Futures Commitment of Traders charts here. The aggregate of all long open interest is equal to the aggregate of all short open interest. Open interest held or controlled by a trader is referred to as that trader's position. For the COT Futures-and-Options-Combined report, option open interest and traders' option positions are computed on a futures-equivalent basis using delta factors supplied by the exchanges.

Long-call and short-put open interest are converted to long futures-equivalent open interest. Likewise, short-call and long-put open interest are converted to short futures-equivalent open interest. For example, a trader holding a long put position of contracts with a delta factor of 0. A trader's long and short futures-equivalent positions are added to the trader's long and short futures positions to give "combined-long" and "combined-short" positions.

Open interest, as reported to the Commission and as used in the COT report, does not include open futures contracts against which notices of deliveries have been stopped by a trader or issued by the clearing organization of an exchange. Clearing members, futures commission merchants, and foreign brokers collectively called reporting firms file daily reports with the Commission.

Those reports show the futures and option positions of traders that hold positions above specific reporting levels set by CFTC regulations. If, at the daily market close, a reporting firm has a trader with a position at or above the Commission's reporting level in any single futures month or option expiration, it reports that trader's entire position in all futures and options expiration months in that commodity, regardless of size.

The aggregate of all traders' positions reported to the Commission usually represents 70 to 90 percent of the total open interest in any given market. From time to time, the Commission will raise or lower the reporting levels in specific markets to strike a balance between collecting sufficient information to oversee the markets and minimizing the reporting burden on the futures industry.

When an individual reportable trader is identified to the Commission, the trader is classified either as "commercial" or "non-commercial. A trading entity generally gets classified as a "commercial" trader by filing a statement with the Commission, on CFTC Form Statement of Reporting Trader, that it is commercially " engaged in business activities hedged by the use of the futures or option markets.

A trader may be classified as a commercial trader in some commodities and as a non-commercial trader in other commodities. A single trading entity cannot be classified as both a commercial and non-commercial trader in the same commodity.

Nonetheless, a multi-functional organization that has more than one trading entity may have each trading entity classified separately in a commodity. For example, a financial organization trading in financial futures may have a banking entity whose positions are classified as commercial and have a separate money-management entity whose positions are classified as non-commercial.

The long and short open interest shown as "Nonreportable Positions" is derived by subtracting total long and short "Reportable Positions" from the total open interest. The new report separates large traders in the financial markets into the following four categories:. The TFF report divides the financial futures market participants into the "sell side" and "buy side. These are essentially clients of the sell-side participants who use the markets to invest, hedge, manage risk, speculate or change the term structure or duration of their assets.

These participants are what are typically described as the "sell side" of the market. Though they may not predominately sell futures, they do design and sell various financial assets to clients. They tend to have matched books or offset their risk across markets and clients.

Futures contracts are part of the pricing and balancing of risk associated with the products they sell and their activities. These include large banks U. and non-U. and dealers in securities, swaps and other derivatives. The rest of the market comprises the "buy-side," which is divided into three separate categories:. These are typically hedge funds and various types of money managers, including registered commodity trading advisors CTAs ; registered commodity pool operators CPOs or unregistered funds identified by CFTC.

The strategies may involve taking outright positions or arbitrage within and across markets. The traders may be engaged in managing and conducting proprietary futures trading and trading on behalf of speculative clients. Reportable traders that are not placed into one of the first three categories are placed into the "other reportables" category.

The traders in this category mostly are using markets to hedge business risk, whether that risk is related to foreign exchange, equities or interest rates. This category includes corporate treasuries, central banks, smaller banks, mortgage originators, credit unions and any other reportable traders not assigned to the other three categories.

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