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One axis from 0 to 100, every major market on it, grouped into a strip per asset class. The crowded corners and the quiet ones show before you read a single value.
Commitments of Traders · 360+ futures markets · new every Friday
Who’s long. Who’s short. Every market, every week.
The largest traders cannot hide their positions. Every Friday, the CFTC publishes what hedge funds and commercial traders hold. COT Screener shows where they are positioned and when one side reaches an extreme.
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1986
oldest report on file
360+
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The CFTC prints numbers. We add meaning.
Every Friday at 3:30 pm ET, the CFTC publishes how the largest traders are positioned in every futures market. The report arrives as a fixed-width text file with thousands of numbers and no context. COT Screener reads each release within minutes and calculates the COT Index for every market, so an extreme week is impossible to miss.
cot-report.txtCFTC · Commitments of Traders
COPPER- #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. Code-085692
FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 07/14/26
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NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL TOTAL NONREPORTABLE
LONG SHORT SPREADS LONG SHORT LONG SHORT LONG SHORT
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(CONTRACTS OF 25,000 POUNDS) OPEN INTEREST: 259,873
COMMITMENTS
99,236 34,851 53,962 87,545 161,161 240,743 249,974 19,130 9,899
CHANGES FROM 07/07/26 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: 8,925)
2,796 2,683 6,146 -525 -79 8,417 8,750 508 175
PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS
38.2 13.4 20.8 33.7 62.0 92.6 96.2 7.4 3.8
NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 274)
141 59 79 62 55 237 163 Copper HG
COMEX · Legacy · large speculators
87
COT Index
of 100 · rolling 3-year range
Speculator net · past 12 monthscontracts
64,385
259,873
Open interest
74%
Long share
141
Traders long
+113
Δ net · 1w
Long minus short, the two highlighted figures leave speculators net long 64,385 contracts. That is a larger bullish bet than in 92% of the past three years.
Built for the people who read positioning.
Futures & commodity traders
See how crowded a market is before you open a position, and whether that reading is unusual for the market or an ordinary week.
Forex traders
See where large speculators stand on the euro, the yen, the pound and the other major currencies. The report covers currency futures, which track the same exchange rates that spot and CFD traders follow.
Macro & position investors
Follow how positioning shifts across stock indices, rates, commodities and crypto, and spot the slow turns that a price chart does not show.
Systematic & quant traders
Compare a reading with every week the market has on record, and check whether similar extremes have mattered before.
An instrument, not a spreadsheet.
Everything the weekly report contains, arranged to be read in seconds.
The COT Index: one number per market
The COT Index places the net position of the large speculators on a scale from 0 to 100. Zero is the shortest they have been in the chosen period, and 100 the longest. Switch between six months, one year and three years to tell a fresh move from a multi-year extreme. How the index works.
6M · 581Y · 763Y · 91
02080100
The three-year COT Index stands at 91, a long extreme.
Every week on record
One chart holds a market’s entire history, back to its first CFTC report. Set any range and see how positioning built up, unwound and built up again.
19862026
Every major market, at once
Every major market sits in one view, each with its COT Index. One look shows where the week stands and which markets are worth opening in full.
Crude Oil WTI
91 · Long
Gold
82 · Long
Japanese Yen
7 · Short
Email alerts on any marketPro
Set an alert on any market at the COT Index level that matters to you. When a new report reaches it, you receive an email, so there is nothing to monitor.
Gold · COT Index crosses 85email
The full trader breakdownPro
The Legacy report divides each market into speculators and commercials. The Disaggregated and TFF reports go further and separate managed money, swap dealers and leveraged funds, so you see which kind of trader stands behind a position.
CommoditiesLegacyDisaggregated
FinancialsLegacyTFF
Open a market, and read it in full.
Every market opens into the same page. These are its modules, drawn one to one from the app and each explained in a sentence. Together they hold everything the CFTC publishes about a market, and a few things it does not.
Positioning history
Four panels on one time axis: price, the net position of all three trader groups, the COT Index with its extreme bands and open interest. Drag the range or pick exact dates.
COT Index
The COT Index of the same net position over three lookbacks: six months, one year and three years. A fresh move and a multi-year extreme never look alike.
Concentration
The share of open interest held by the four and the eight largest traders, long and short. It shows whether a few traders carry a side or many.
Long positions and short positions
Reported contracts per trader group, each side on its own chart, over any range. New shorts and short covering no longer hide inside a net figure. On the page, each group’s share of its side appears below.
The CFTC report, for any week
The CFTC’s own table for the week: positions, changes, share of open interest and trader counts per group, for any report date since the market’s first. Below it, each group’s long and short side appears as one bar.
Recent history
Week by week: open interest and each group’s net position, with the change from the previous report. One click opens that week’s full table.
Try the full analysis, free.
These three markets come with the complete analysis shown above, based on the latest report. They are open to everyone, without an account.
Every module, screen by screen: inside the market page.
Every major market, from every angle.
A single chart shows one market at a time. These five views show every major market at once, each from its own angle. Together they turn one release into a picture of the whole week. Keep scrolling to see all five, or pick a question directly. Swipe to see all five. The heatmap is free. The other four views come with Pro.
Find the markets worth opening.Pro
The Markets page holds the 51 major markets, and the catalog holds every other contract the CFTC publishes. The screener narrows the major markets to a shortlist, and the catalog ensures that nothing is missing.
- 01 · The field51 markets
Start with every major market
All 51 major markets, each with its COT Index on the same scale from 0 to 100. Too many to read one by one.
- 02 · Filter9 of 51 left
Keep what matters
Only the long extremes, only the short extremes, or only the markets that moved most since the last release.
- 03 · RankCOT Index, high to low
Sort what is left
By COT Index, net position or the week’s change, in either direction. The market to open first sits on top.
And every other market, in the catalog
Explore lists the more than 300 other markets the CFTC reports, searchable and sorted by open interest. Each one opens the same analysis.
How the majors and the catalog fit togetherThe data is weekly. So is the routine.
The CFTC publishes once a week, on Friday afternoon, with positions as of the Tuesday before. COT Screener follows that rhythm: there is nothing to monitor between releases, and everything is ready minutes after a new report appears.
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WatchlistPro
Pin the markets you follow. The list shows their COT Index and the weekly change, and nothing else.
Watchlist and alerts, screen by screenAlertsPro
Set a level and a direction on any market. Each release is checked against it, so an alert fires at most once a week, and only when a market crosses the level.
How an alert firesThe Friday brief
One free email a week with the extremes of the latest release. No account needed.
Inside the Friday briefThree markets are open to everyone.Pro opens the other 360+.
With Pro, every other market opens exactly like Gold, WTI Crude Oil and Euro FX: the 51 major markets on the Markets page and more than 300 further markets in the catalog, each with the same page, history and report table.
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Pro opens the entire report: every market the CFTC publishes, its full history and every trader breakdown. Email alerts are included.
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- Their entire history, back to 1986
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- The same full analysis, on all 360+ markets
- Every week the CFTC has reported, back to 1986
- COT Index over 6-month, 1-year and 3-year windows
- Disaggregated and TFF trader breakdowns
- The original CFTC report table, for any past week
- Price charts for the major markets, open interest for all
- Five analysis views: heatmap, trend, asset classes, map, divergence
- The screener: filter and rank every major market
- A watchlist for the markets you follow
- Email alerts on any market
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New subscribers get 14 days free. After the first year, Pro continues monthly at $19€19, so you are never locked into a second year.
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New subscribers get 14 days free. After the first year, Pro continues monthly at $29€29, so you are never locked into a second year.
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Frequently asked questions.
Where does the data come from?
Every figure comes from the Commitments of Traders reports that the CFTC publishes each week. COT Screener reads them directly from the agency’s public data feed, not through a data vendor. The COT Index and every other derived figure are calculated by COT Screener itself.
When does COT Screener update?
The CFTC publishes the report on Friday at 3:30 pm Eastern Time, with positions as of the preceding Tuesday. COT Screener updates within minutes of each release. When a US public holiday delays the report, the update follows on the new date. The schedule guide explains the timing in detail.
What does the free plan include?
This week’s COT Index for every major market, on the Markets page and on the heatmap. Three markets are open in full: Gold, WTI Crude Oil and Euro FX, each with its entire history back to 1986, every lookback period and the report table for any past week. The free plan requires no card and does not expire.
What does Pro add?
Pro opens the same full analysis for all 360+ markets the CFTC publishes. It also adds the Disaggregated and Traders in Financial Futures reports, the screener, the watchlist and alerts on any market. Of the five analysis views, the heatmap is free in its default setting, and Pro opens it in every setting along with Trend, Positioning map, Asset classes and Divergence.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. In the app, open Settings and click Manage subscription. You can cancel there in one step at any time, including during the free trial. Pro remains active until the end of the period you have paid for. After that, the account continues on the free plan, and your watchlist and alerts are kept in case you return.
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Every Friday · 3:30 pm ET
The next report prints Friday. Be set up before it lands.
A free account shows this week’s COT Index for every major market and opens Gold, WTI Crude Oil and Euro FX in full. Pro adds the other 360+ markets, four more analysis views, the screener, the watchlist and alerts.
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The Friday brief, in your inbox.
Every Friday, within two hours of the new COT report, we send you one email. It lists the markets where the largest traders are positioned unusually heavily in one direction, grouped by asset class. You do not need an account. See an example.
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