CFTC Commitments of Traders — weekly futures + options positions by commodity (since 2020)

Dataset · US Commodity Futures Trading Commission · primary source ↗

Every weekly Commitments of Traders snapshot from CFTC since 2020. ~99k observations across ~700 unique futures contract markets. Each row: report date (week-ending Tuesday), contract market code + name, market + exchange (CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE, NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, COMEX, ICE, etc), commodity group (Agriculture / Metals / Energy / Financial / Currencies / Petroleum / Natural Gas / Livestock), open interest, non-commercial (speculator) long + short + spread positions, commercial (hedger) long + short, non-reportable (small trader) long + short, total trader count, % of open interest for each category, week-over-week changes. Source: publicreporting.cftc.gov Socrata API (no auth, weekly Friday update, CC0). Canonical pages per contract market show 52-week history.

Source agency
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
License / terms
Coverage
99k weekly observations
API endpoint

Keywords

CFTCCommitments of Tradersfutures positionsspeculator longcommercial hedgeropen interestCMECOMEXICE futurescommodity positions

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. AI Analytics-authored metadata and normalization are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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