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CFTC Release Schedule 2026

Every COT release date · Time-zone aware · Holidays included

The full CFTC weekly Commitments of Traders publication calendar. See the next release date, your local time, and how U.S. federal holidays push the release to the following business day. Free, no signup required.

The CFTC publishes a new Commitments of Traders report every Friday at 3:30 PM Eastern Time, reflecting positions held as of the previous Tuesday's close — a 3-day reporting lag. When a US federal holiday falls on the Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of that week, the release moves to the next business day, usually the following Monday — a Monday holiday such as Labor Day does not delay it. The next release date and a live countdown are shown above.

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2026 calendar · 52 releases

Full 2026 COT Report release calendar

All 52 CFTC COT release dates for 2026. Past releases are dimmed; the next upcoming release is highlighted.

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October 2026

Next · Oct 23
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Next: Fri, Oct 23 · 3:30 PM EDT

November 2026

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4 releases · 2 holiday delays

December 2026

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4 releases · 1 holiday delay
Holiday delays · 6 in 2026

COT Report holiday delays in 2026

When a US federal holiday falls on the Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of a report week, the CFTC moves that week's release to the next business day. 6 releases are delayed in 2026:

  1. New Year’s Day✓ Done
    ScheduledReleased

    Friday, January 2, 2026 (New Year’s Day) — released Monday, January 5, 2026

  2. Juneteenth✓ Done
    ScheduledReleased

    Friday, June 19, 2026 (Juneteenth) — released Monday, June 22, 2026

  3. Independence Day, observed✓ Done
    ScheduledReleased

    Friday, July 3, 2026 (Independence Day, observed) — released Monday, July 6, 2026

  4. Veterans DayNext delay
    ScheduledReleased

    Friday, November 13, 2026 (Veterans Day) — released Monday, November 16, 2026

  5. Thanksgiving DayUpcoming
    ScheduledReleased

    Friday, November 27, 2026 (Thanksgiving Day) — released Monday, November 30, 2026

  6. Christmas DayUpcoming
    ScheduledReleased

    Friday, December 25, 2026 (Christmas Day) — released Monday, December 28, 2026

NoteThe as-of Tuesday and the release time (3:30 PM ET) never change — only the publish day shifts forward.

How it works

About the COT Report release schedule

The CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) report is a weekly snapshot of open positions held by futures traders on US exchanges. It is published every Friday at 3:30 PM Eastern Time and reflects data as of the close of business on the previous Tuesday. The CFTC uses that three-day gap to aggregate and verify the data.

Every release shown here is the day the CFTC publishes all of its COT reports: Legacy, Disaggregated and Traders in Financial Futures, each in its Futures Only and Futures & Options Combined versions, and the Supplemental report, published as Futures & Options Combined only. The timing is identical for every report; only the format differs.

Federal holidays occasionally push a Friday release to the next business day. The schedule above already accounts for every shift in 2026, so the dates you see are the actual publish days rather than the naive "every Friday" calendar.

This release week

3-day reporting lag
  1. TuesdayTue, Oct 20Positions snapshotOpen positions are recorded at the close of business.
  2. Wednesday – ThursdayCFTC aggregates and verifiesThe three-day gap the CFTC uses to aggregate and verify the data.
  3. Friday · 3:30 PM ETFri, Oct 23Report publishedCOT-Reports.com updates automatically.
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When is the next COT report released?

The countdown at the top of this page shows the exact moment of the next release. Normally it's the upcoming Friday at 3:30 PM Eastern Time, but if a US federal holiday falls on the Wednesday, Thursday or Friday of that week, the release moves to the next business day — usually the following Monday.

Why does the CFTC publish on Fridays?

The CFTC uses the three days between the Tuesday close-of-business snapshot and the Friday publication to aggregate, validate and anonymize the positioning data.

What is "data as of Tuesday"?

Every COT report reflects open positions at the close of business on the Tuesday of the reporting week. That Tuesday snapshot is then published three days later, on Friday. On a normal week it is three days old when you read it — six when a holiday moves the release to Monday.

Which holidays delay the release?

Any US federal holiday (as observed) that falls on the Wednesday, Thursday or Friday after the Tuesday snapshot — in practice New Year's Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, depending on the weekday they land on. Monday holidays such as Labor Day or Memorial Day come before the snapshot and don't delay it. The list above shows every shift for 2026.

Are Good Friday and Black Friday affected?

Good Friday is not a US federal holiday — the CFTC publishes on schedule even though US equity markets are closed. Black Friday is different: Thanksgiving falls on the Thursday of that week, so the release always moves to the following Monday.

What time is 3:30 PM Eastern in my country?

The "Next release" card above shows the release time converted to your device's local timezone automatically. Eastern Time is UTC-5 in winter (EST) and UTC-4 in summer (EDT).