The report comes out weekly, and you can find the COT at this site: Commercial traders are the most bullish when the market bottoms, and most bearish when the market tops. This is because the commercial buyers and sellers are hedging against changes in currency fluctuation. When they start to hedge a lot one way [...] Read more »
Deriving Value from the COT
We mentioned that the COT report sometimes gives trades too much information. Our example was of the number of traders that have to report, and we asked why anyone would care how many traders had to report? The market moves based on buying and selling, not based on how many people are in the market. [...] Read more »
Making Trades Based on the COT
The commitment of traders report is excellent for finding long-term directional changes in market sentiment. We know that buying and selling patterns matter since prices on any market are a function of supply and demand—who is buying, and who is selling, and how much! As a forex trader, you can use the COT report to [...] Read more »
COT: Watch the Market Work Magic
The Commitment of Traders report from the CTFC is a great way to “meet the market.” The COT report introduces us to the people who are in the market, and how they’re playing the market. The COT report divides traders into unique categories so that they can be identified as a whole. We’ll explain what [...] Read more »
Forex Volume and the COT
Since the foreign exchange market is an over the counter market, forex traders have a difficult time understanding how much currency is trading hands, and who is doing the trading. Of course, we know that buying and selling is important from a fundamental and technical view, so we have to get to the bottom of [...] Read more »
