CFTC · Commitments of Traders · published weekly
Who’s long. Who’s short. Every market, every week.
Institutions can’t hide their positions. See where the big money is crowded, when it’s stretched too far — and where it’s quietly turning.
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The CFTC prints numbers. We add meaning.
Every Friday at 3:30 pm ET, the CFTC publishes how the biggest traders are positioned in every futures market. The report lands as a fixed-width text file: thousands of numbers, zero context. COT Screener picks up each release within minutes and ranks every market against its own history — so an extreme week is impossible to miss.
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 The two highlighted figures — long minus short — leave speculators net long 64,385 contracts, a bigger bullish bet than in 92% of the past three years.
An instrument, not a spreadsheet.
Everything the weekly report contains, engineered to be read in seconds.
One score per market: 0–100
The COT Index scores net speculator positioning against its own history — 0 is as short as they get, 100 is as long. Read it over six months, one year, or three years to tell a fresh stretch from a multi-year extreme.
The three-year COT Index stands at 91 — a long extreme.
Every week on record
One chart holds a contract’s entire history — as far back as the CFTC has reported it. Set the range to whatever you need and see how positioning built, unwound, and built again.
The whole board, at once
Every market the report covers sits in one view, already sized up. One look tells you where the week stands — and which markets are worth opening in full.
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Set an alert on any market at the COT Index level you care about. When it gets there, you get an email. Nothing to watch, nothing to check.
The full trader breakdown
Legacy sorts a market into speculators and commercials. The second report breaks that open: managed money, swap dealers, leveraged funds. You see which kind of trader is behind the position.
Built for the people who read positioning.
Futures & commodity traders
Know how crowded a market already is before you put a position on, and whether that reading is unusual for this market or just another normal week.
Macro & position investors
Follow how positioning shifts across every asset class, and catch the slow turns a price chart won’t show.
Systematic & quant traders
Judge a reading against every week the market has on record, and see whether an extreme like this one has meant anything before.
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- This week's COT Index on every major market
- Gold, WTI Crude Oil and Euro FX analysed in full
- Their entire history, back to 1986
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- Every week the CFTC has reported, back to 1986
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- Disaggregated and TFF trader breakdowns
- The original CFTC report table, for any past week
- Price and open interest beside the positioning chart
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Questions, answered.
Where does the data come from?
Straight from the CFTC’s own weekly Commitments of Traders publication — official, public data, read from the agency’s public feed. We normalize it and compute every index ourselves; nothing comes second-hand from a data vendor.
When does the board update?
The CFTC publishes Fridays at 3:30 pm ET, reporting positions as of the preceding Tuesday. The board updates within minutes of publication.
Isn’t the report three days old by then?
Yes — the Tuesday-to-Friday lag is in the source itself, for every COT tool. Positioning is a slow signal: extremes build over weeks, which is why the report is read for context and turning points rather than for day-trading.
Do I need a futures account?
No. COT Screener is an analysis tool, not a broker. Futures positioning is read as a macro signal for ETFs, FX, and equities just as often as for futures themselves.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, self-serve, effective at the end of the billing period. Your account then keeps working on the free tier.
Every Friday · 3:30 pm ET
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