Market-making banks & brokers.
The intermediaries — large banks and broker-dealers warehousing risk to service client flow. Their positioning tends to be the inverse of the rest of the market.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission publishes a weekly Commitment of Traders report showing exactly how dealers, asset managers, and leveraged funds are positioned in regulated cryptocurrency futures — released every Friday, reflecting Tuesday's close. Overstretched positioning often precedes outsized moves. New to COT? Read the primer → Full historical data back to 2018 via the CDD API.
The intermediaries — large banks and broker-dealers warehousing risk to service client flow. Their positioning tends to be the inverse of the rest of the market.
Pension funds, endowments, mutual funds — long-only, structurally long, slow to turn. When they shift, it tends to mean something durable about flows.
Tactical hot money — hedge funds and trend-following CTAs. Fastest cohort to reposition. Often the source of crowded trades that unwind violently.
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Open interest plus long/short positions for each of the three CFTC trader categories. Tier1 / Plus+ members can export the full history to CSV.
| Market name | Report date | Open interest total | Dealer long | Dealer short | Asset manager long | Asset manager short | Leveraged long | Leveraged short |
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Source data for the CFTC Commitment of Traders report is published by the CFTC at cftc.gov. CryptoDataDownload aggregates and visualizes; we do not modify the published values.