Commitments of Traders COT Charts

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1. Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader.
2. The Barchart Technical Opinion rating is a 56% Buy with a Weakening short term outlook on maintaining the current direction.
3. 52 week high is the highest price of a stock in the past 52 weeks, or one year.
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5. For example, traders are classified as non-commercial or commercial, and that holds for every position they have within that particular commodity.

The remaining three categories (“asset manager/institutional;” “leveraged funds;” and “other reportables”) represent the buy-side participants. These are essentially clients of the sell-side participants who use the markets to invest, hedge, manage risk, speculate or change the term structure or duration of their assets. Clearing members, futures commission merchants, and foreign brokers (collectively called reporting firms) file daily reports with the Commission. Those reports show the futures and option positions of traders that hold positions above specific reporting levels set by CFTC regulations.

It breaks down the open-interest positions of all major contracts that have more than 20 traders. The legacy COT simply shows the market for a commodity broken into long, short, and spread positions for non-commercial traders, commercial traders, and non-reportable positions (small traders). The total open interest is given as well as changes in open interest. For example, traders are classified as non-commercial or commercial, and that holds for every position they have within that particular commodity.

Example of a COT Report

Open interest held or controlled by a trader is referred to as that trader’s position. For the COT Futures-and-Options-Combined report, option open interest and traders’ option positions are computed on a futures-equivalent basis using delta factors supplied by the exchanges. Long-call and short-put open interest are converted to long futures-equivalent open interest. Likewise, short-call and long-put open interest bitfinex review are converted to short futures-equivalent open interest. For example, a trader holding a long put position of 500 contracts with a delta factor of 0.50 is considered to be holding a short futures-equivalent position of 250 contracts. A trader’s long and short futures-equivalent positions are added to the trader’s long and short futures positions to give “combined-long” and “combined-short” positions.

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It provides a deeper breakdown of the market participants, splitting commercial traders into producers, merchants, processors, users, and swap dealers. The noncommercial participants are split between managed money and other reportables. Market data provided is at least 10-minutes delayed and hosted by Barchart Solutions.Information is provided ‘as-is’ and solely for informational purposes, not for trading purposes or advice, and is delayed. Barchart also offers extensive historical data through Barchart Excel and via API through Barchart OnDemand (Web Services).

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The Barchart Technical Opinion widget shows you today’s overally Barchart Opinion with general information on how to interpret the short and longer term signals. Unique to Barchart.com, Opinions analyzes a stock or commodity using 13 popular analytics in short-, medium- and long-term periods. Results are interpreted as buy, sell or hold signals, each with numeric ratings and summarized with an overall percentage buy coinjar reviews or sell rating. After each calculation the program assigns a Buy, Sell, or Hold value with the study, depending on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of the study. For example, a price above its moving average is generally considered an upward trend or a buy. The 50-day moving average is a frequently used data point by active investors and traders to understand the trend of a stock.

My Barchart and Barchart Premier members may download the data to a .csv file for use in 3rd party spreadsheet programs. Forex traders may use currency derivatives COT reports to find large net long or net short coinbase forex positions. It is a core data source for traders and for most academic research on pricing trends in the futures market. That said, it does have its critics and their issues with the report are justified.

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