Dataset
Commitments of Traders reports
A weekly dataset tracking positions held by commercial and non-commercial participants across futures, provided in legacy, disaggregated, and financial-futures formats for agricultural, energy, metals, and financial contracts.
Dataset card
The Commitments of Traders reports are published by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and summarize aggregate long and short positioning held by different participant categories in U.S. futures markets. The dataset is released as U.S. government public-domain work.
What this dataset contains
The reports cover positioning in U.S. futures and, in some variants, options markets, breaking holdings into reportable and non-reportable trader categories such as commercial, non-commercial, and non-reportable positions. Underlying fields such as Open Interest and the Change in positions from the prior report are implied by the publication's standard methodology, though the supplied schema does not enumerate columns. Coverage spans the markets that the CFTC designates as reportable.
Structure and fields
The provided facts do not list the report's specific columns or row layout, so the exact field names cannot be confirmed. Standard COT output is organized by market and reporting week, with separate tallies for long, short, and spread positions, alongside Open Interest. Analysts should consult the publisher's documentation to verify column names before programmatic use.
How analysts use it
Investors and researchers commonly use Commitments of Traders data to track shifts in speculative and hedging activity, gauge sentiment extremes, and inform futures-based strategies across commodities, rates, and FX. Plausible investment-fund applications include monitoring non-commercial net positioning as a contrarian signal and observing commercial hedger behavior as a supply-demand proxy. Given the absence of confirmed columns or sample rows in the source facts, any quantitative use should be preceded by a direct review of the CFTC release notes.
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