Commitment of Traders (COT) — positioning dashboard
How large speculators (hedge funds / leveraged money) are positioned across FX majors, gold and US indices, straight from the CFTC's weekly report -- with 3-year percentile context so a raw number becomes a read. Sorted by how extreme each reading is right now.
Report week: 2026-06-30
What is the COT report?
The CFTC's Commitment of Traders report is published every Friday and shows how different categories of traders are positioned in US futures markets as of the prior Tuesday. We track large speculators (leveraged money in the Traders in Financial Futures report for currencies/indices, managed money in the Disaggregated report for gold) -- the closest public proxy for hedge-fund and institutional positioning.
Positioning is expressed net of the underlying pair convention (e.g. a long JPY future is shown as bearish USDJPY, since USD is the base currency of that pair) and as a percentage of open interest so it's comparable across time even as market size changes. The percentile ranks the latest reading against the last 3 years (~156 weekly reports) of the same instrument. USD (aggregate) averages the sign-adjusted %-of-OI across the 7 FX majors -- a simple, transparent read of overall dollar positioning, not notional-weighted.