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
CC0 / US public domain
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. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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