Know where the money is positioned before Tuesday.
Every Friday the CFTC reveals what the big speculators and the hedgers hold in currency futures. COT Intelligence ranks every currency, scores all 28 majors pairs, and hands you a bias for the week, with the reasoning written out.
One report in. One clear bias out.
The CFTC's Commitments of Traders report is dense. The app does three things with it, in this order.
Rank
Every currency gets one score from −3 to +3: where the speculators' money is flowing, where it sits in its six-month range, and how committed last week's move was.
Pair
The strongest currency against the weakest. A gap of 3 or more across the 28 majors pairs becomes a long or short bias. Anything less is no trade.
Explain
Every bias comes with its reasoning written out in plain English, and every number opens its formula. Nothing to take on trust.
Built around the week you actually trade.
New report was due Fri 25 Sep, 22:30 EAT.
- Tue
Positions are counted
The report is taken as of Tuesday's close. Holiday weeks use Monday.
- Fri 22:30 EAT
Release → automatic update
About 15 minutes after release the year's file is re-downloaded, every row validated and every metric recomputed.
- Weekend
Pick one or two pairs
Read the strength board, check the regimes, take the widest gaps. Never flip on one week.
- Tue – Wed
Execute on your charts
Wait for a sweep of the prior high or low and a structure shift. No setup by Wednesday's close, no trade.
Seven rules, in order. Price has the final say.
Positioning gives you the bias and the context. It is never an entry on its own.
The two-week rule
Never flip bias on a single week of data.
Regime
Use the COT index to decide between trend mode and extreme mode.
Flow
Read the 3–4 week direction of the net.
Conviction
Check last week's change type and whether open interest confirms it.
Commercials
At extremes, check whether commercials are at the opposite extreme (reversal watch).
Score and pair
Trade only when the gap is 3 or more.
Price has the final say
Positioning gives the bias; price confirms it.
Execute Tuesday or Wednesday
Wait for a sweep of the prior week's, Monday's or Tuesday's high or low, then a structure shift on H1 or H4. Enter on the retrace, with the stop beyond the sweep. Target the opposite liquidity. If nothing sets up by Wednesday's close, take no trade.
Straight from the CFTC. Checked every week.
Legacy report, futures only. Keyed on the contract code, never the name. Missing weeks are recorded, never filled in. Every update is logged.
- History starts
- 2000
- Futures contracts tracked
- 9
- Weekly rows validated
- 12,189
- Identity failures
- 0
Positions are re-checked against the report's own identities on every run, and against 17/17 hand-verified golden values from real 2026 reports.
Data statusFriday, 22:30 EAT.
New report was due Fri 25 Sep, 22:30 EAT. The data updates itself, read the board, pick your pairs.