PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly) COT Report positioning analysis.
Disaggregated COT report · Managed Money · 3-year rank · updated usually Friday, 3:30 PM ETReleased · positions as of
The positioning of money managers (Managed Money) in PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly) is at a 3-year extreme: their net position is below 100% of the weeks since November 2023.
Managed Money: net short grew by 2,565 contracts this week.
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COT data reflects positions as of Tuesday close, released Friday at 3:30 PM ET.
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Based on the CFTC's Futures Only report — Disaggregated for commodities, Traders in Financial Futures (TFF) for financial markets. With COT Premium, the sections below can also be read in the Futures & Options Combined version.
Where today's net position sits in the group's own 3-year range: 0 = the lowest of the last 156 weeks, 100 = the highest. Shaded ends: the 80/20 and 90/10 bands.
- 01Rank each groupEvery group's net position, as % of open interest, is ranked against its own last 156 weeks (0–100).
- 02Name the bandHigh from 80, extremely high from 90; low at 20 and below, extremely low at 10 and below. A band is kept until the rank falls back below 75 / 85 (or rises above 25 / 15).
- 03Check opposite sidesWhen the speculators and the small traders sit at opposite ends of their ranges, that state takes priority.
- 04Measure the weekThis week's change is compared with the market's usual weekly change (a z-score over 52 weeks).
PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly) COT report — FAQ
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What does the PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly) COT positioning analysis show?
Where each group of traders in PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly) futures stands this week compared with its own last 3 years, from the CFTC's Disaggregated report (Futures Only): money managers, small traders and producers and merchants, with the week's change. In PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly), the net position of money managers (Managed Money) has ranged from -10% to +42% of open interest since April 2019.
When is the PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly) Commitments of Traders report released?
Every Friday at 3:30 PM Eastern Time, for positions held on the previous Tuesday. 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. This analysis updates after each release.
Who are the money managers in PJM JCP&L Zone Day-Ahead Off-Peak (Monthly)?
Managed Money in the CFTC's words: commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators and funds that trade futures for clients. This analysis calls them the speculators.
How is the 3-year range calculated?
Each week, a group's net position as % of open interest is compared with its own last 156 weekly readings: 0 is the lowest of those weeks and 100 the highest. A group becomes high at 80 and extremely high at 90, low at 20 and extremely low at 10. It keeps that band until its rank falls back below 75 (high) or 85 (extremely high), or rises above 25 and 15 on the low side, so a market does not change band on a small weekly move.
Is this investment advice?
No. It is an automated, educational description of public CFTC data and does not tell anyone what to do.
Not a trading signal, an entry point or a recommendation.
Automated, descriptive analysis of public CFTC data (prices: Yahoo Finance) by COT-Reports.com, computed Oct 30, 2026, 7:36 PM UTC from the report of Oct 27, 2026. The numbers are facts; the words describing them are our interpretation. COT-Reports.com sells subscriptions and lists partner offers. Not investment advice. Past patterns do not predict future prices. How this analysis is computed
Weekly data from CFTC (Futures Only). Price from Yahoo Finance. Charts drawn with TradingView Lightweight Charts™. Copyright (c) 2026 TradingView, Inc.