How do I read a COT report?
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How do I read a COT report?
How to Access the COT Reports
- Go to www.CFTC.gov.
- Select Market Reports.
- Select Commitments of Traders.
- The next page will allow you to view the COT Reports with choices to filter the data by the following, as well as choose whether you would like to view the data in a long or short format:
What is COT Gold?
CoT Report (Commitment of Traders Report) The CoT report enables investors to peek behind the scenes of the gold futures market and to better understand the psychology of the marketplace and, thus, get a better idea of futures moves on the gold market.
What is spread in COT report?
Spreading. For the options-and-futures-combined report, spreading measures the extent to which each non-commercial trader holds equal combined-long and combined-short positions.
How do you use a cot Report for trading?
One way to use the COT report in your trading is to find extreme net long or net short positions. Finding these positions may signal that a market reversal is just around the corner because if everyone is long a currency, who is left to buy? No one.
What is COT legacy?
Legacy. The legacy COT is the one with which traders are most familiar. The legacy COT simply shows the market for a commodity broken into long, short, and spread positions for non-commercial traders, commercial traders, and non-reportable positions (small traders).
How do you use COT trading?
How do you trade with COT reports?
What are non-reportable in COT report?
A Non-reportable position, in line with the CFTC’s definition, is that of any trader whose position is smaller than the reporting level in every contract month (350 for Brent, 250 for gasoil, 100 for soft commodities).
What is non-commercial in COT report?
Instead, a non-commercial trader takes a speculative market position only to profit from price moves in the market. The CFTC makes this designation in order to keep track of market activity in its Commitment of Traders (COT) report.