A one-page reference guide explaining all COT trader categories, report types, and key terms. Perfect for beginners.
The Free COT Cheat Sheet is a one-page PDF that explains the trader categories, the report types and the key terms of the CFTC Commitments of Traders reports. It is for beginners who want a quick reference while they learn to read the weekly positioning data. It is free with a COT-Reports account.
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One-page referenceThis free cheat sheet covers everything you need to know about reading COT reports: Commercial vs Non-Commercial positioning, Open Interest changes, and how to interpret weekly data shifts.
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Tools that work alongside this one — COT data, spreadsheets, guides, the TradeLog journal and Guardian risk robots (coming soon). COT-Reports builds its own products; a third-party product is listed only after we approve it.
COT-ReportsA step-by-step guide to reading and interpreting the CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) reports, right here on the site with live examples. Beginners welcome.
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JSON · Bearer authREST API for the entire CFTC Commitments of Traders dataset. Bearer auth, JSON responses, a monthly subscription.
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CSV + NDJSONAll four CFTC Commitments of Traders report families, every market, every week (Legacy back to 1986) — in two archives, one per CFTC variant, each in CSV and NDJSON.
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CFTC data refreshed on openA pre-configured Microsoft Excel template that pulls live CFTC data on open: the latest week of every market plus ~10 years of the market you pick.
The sibling app to COT-Reports: auto-syncs trades from MT4/MT5, cTrader, NinjaTrader, Tradovate and Rithmic. Analytics, prop-firm tracking, multi-account.
COT-Reports2 PDF guides includedA complete Microsoft Excel trading journal with statistics, equity curve and drawdown analysis. Includes 2 PDF guides.
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