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Cross-market extremes · updated every Friday · 3:30 PM ET
A premium view no other report format offers — see how every trader category is positioned across every CFTC market at once, ranked by historical percentile so extremes jump out. Click any cell to open the full report for that market.
The COT Positioning Heatmap visualizes trader positioning extremes across every CFTC futures market in one grid. Each cell shows a trader category's net position for the latest report, colored by its percentile rank over a rolling 52-week, 3-year or 5-year window: dark green = extreme net long, dark red = extreme net short, pale = in the middle of the historical range. The heatmap is updated every Friday at 3:30 PM ET alongside the underlying CFTC release.
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Data sourced directly from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Percentile rank uses the rolling window you select. Historical coverage on the Heatmap effectively starts 2006-06-13 across all report formats — that is the earliest date with continuous data for every market in the curated list. Positioning extremes are not investment advice — use alongside price action and broader market context.
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A COT heatmap is a grid visualization of CFTC Commitments of Traders data where each row is a futures market and each column is a trader category. Cells are color-coded by how extreme the current positioning is — dark green for extreme net long, dark red for extreme net short, pale for middle-of-range. It lets traders scan positioning across every market at once instead of reading one report at a time.
Pick a report format (Futures Only, Disaggregated, TFF or Supplemental) and a history window (1Y, 3Y or 5Y). Each cell's color shows where the current net position sits in that window's distribution. A cell at 95% means the current position is more net long than 95% of historical weeks; a cell at 5% means more net short than 95% of weeks. Hover for exact numbers, click to open the full market report.
A green cell means the trader category is currently net long and sits in the upper percentile of its historical range. Darker green = more extreme. Traders often watch dark-green cells as contrarian reversal setups: historically, crowded long positioning has preceded sharp pullbacks in the underlying market.
The heatmap refreshes every Friday at 3:30 PM ET, within minutes of the CFTC releasing the week's new Commitments of Traders report. Positions reflect Tuesday's market close. 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.
Extreme positioning is measured using percentile rank of the current net position (Long − Short) against the selected historical window. The 1Y window uses 52 weeks, 3Y uses 156 weeks, 5Y uses 260 weeks. A percentile of 95% means only 5% of weeks in that window showed a more net long position; a percentile of 5% means only 5% of weeks were more net short. This normalizes comparison across markets of different sizes.
The Simplified report shows you one market's full history in depth — ideal for drilling into a single instrument. The heatmap shows the opposite: every market at once, at a single moment in time. Use the heatmap to spot cross-market patterns (e.g. Managed Money net long across all metals, or Commercials aggressively short across all energies) and to flag which markets deserve a deeper look in the Simplified, Detailed or Latest report pages.
