COT Reports
The weekly COT report is still a valuable tool studied by market professionals to determine market direction, sentiment, and trend. Two types of reports are released weekly for financial futures and options. Legacy reports for currency pairs highlight commercial and noncommercial positions, longs and shorts for each currency pair, open interest, open interest as a percentage by trader type, and weekly changes. Commercials could be hedgers or wish to manage risk, while non-commercials are everybody else. Futures only and futures and options combined reports are available weekly free of charge from the CFTC.
The recommendation is to view each report separately to determine open interest for futures and options because futures and micro ...
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