Futures positioning: CFTC Commitments of Traders

Every week the CFTC publishes who holds the futures markets: dealers, asset managers and leveraged funds in financial futures, and producers, swap dealers and managed money in commodities. This page shows each market's speculative positioning (leveraged funds or managed money), its change since the previous report, its share of open interest, and where it sits in its own 3-year range.

How the Reports Work

Positions are as of a date (usually a Tuesday), and the CFTC publishes them on the Friday after, later in holiday or delayed weeks. Each market is shown with the contract units the CFTC reports it in; when the CFTC changes a market's units, its history starts again from that report. The 3-year range runs from 0 (the lowest speculative net in up to three years of reports) to 100 (the highest) and is shown once 52 reports are on file. Not every position in these groups is speculative.

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