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What is Commitment of Traders?
The chart above can be used to view the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) commitments of traders data (or COT in short) in an easily readable format. The data is published by the CFTC every week on Friday and contains an aggregated report of the different holdings of market participants in the US futures market (where you can trade currencies, commodities and metals such as gold and silver)
The Gold COT report provides the data broken down to 4 different types of traders:
Dealer/Intermediary – typically ‘sell-side’ and include large banks (both US and non US) and dealers in swaps, securities and other derivatives.
Asset Manager/Institutional – typically ‘buy-side’ and include pension funds, insurance companies etc.
Leveraged Funds – typically ‘buy-side’ and include hedge funds and money managers such as CTAs (registered commodity trading advisors) and CPOs (registered commodity pool operators) or unregistered funds as identified by the CFTC.