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Stand with the institutions, not in front of them.

The largest players have to report their futures positions every week. We turn the CFTC Commitments of Traders data into a clear read per currency, so you can stand with the institutions instead of in front of them.

Official CFTC data
Clear read per currency
Updated every release
Institutional positioning·Leveraged money

US Dollar Index

USD
Net short-12.4%-2.6% this week

Hedge funds and proprietary trading firms are currently reported net short US Dollar Index.

ICE US Dollar Index futures·CFTC, published Tuesday

Net positioning
-3.3k-0.7k
Total contracts 26.7k
Longs
11.7k300
44%
Shorts
15.0k400
56%
Net bias-12.4%
Extreme level-2.1σ
Extreme reading
Position rank (1y)8th
Net positioning trend
1k0-1k-2k-3k
6m ago4m ago3m ago1m agoNow
Net longNet short·ContractsUpdated Tuesdays
US Dollar Index positioning insight

Leveraged funds extended their US Dollar Index short by 0.7k contracts this week, taking net positioning to a one-year extreme at the 8th percentile. Shorts this crowded have historically left the dollar vulnerable to squeezes on hawkish surprises.

Positioning anglesShowing 6M
Longs & shorts over time
LongsShorts·Absolute counts
Long vs short bias
Long %Short %·Normalized to 100%

Trading blind to the biggest players

The institutions move the market, and they have to disclose where they stand. Most retail traders never look.

You take a trade with no idea whether the big money is leaning the same way or stacked against you.

The COT report is free, but the raw spreadsheet of numbers is almost impossible to read at a glance.

You hear positioning is at an extreme, but you cannot tell whether that is a tailwind or a warning of a reversal.

By the time positioning gets talked about online, you have no way to check it for yourself.

The disclosure is public. The edge is in reading it quickly and consistently, which is exactly what this does.

The COT report, finally readable

We take the official CFTC positioning data and turn it into a clear per-currency read, so you can see at a glance who is long, who is short, and how stretched it is.

1.

Pull the official data. Straight from the CFTC Commitments of Traders report, updated every release. No third-hand numbers.

2.

Read it per currency. We translate the futures positioning into a simple long-or-short lean for each currency, with how extreme it is.

3.

Spot the extremes. Crowded positioning can fuel a trend or signal a turn. We flag the stretches so you know when to follow and when to be careful.

Note the COT report itself is published weekly, so this is the one place a weekly cadence is by design, not a shortcut.

Stand with the smart money

Positioning you can actually act on, not a spreadsheet you have to decode.

01Official

Straight from the CFTC

The same Commitments of Traders data the institutions report, with none of the raw-spreadsheet pain.

Source you can trust

02Readable

A lean per currency

Long or short, and how strongly. The institutional stance for each major in a glance, not a grid of numbers.

Positioning at a glance

03Sharp

Extremes flagged

When the crowd is all on one side, you see it. That is when trends accelerate or snap back hardest.

Know when it is stretched

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Still not sure?

Isn't COT data lagged and weekly?

It is, by design, because that is when the CFTC publishes it. It is best for the bigger positioning picture, not for timing an entry. Paired with the daily scores, it tells you whether the trend has institutional backing.

I can pull the COT report myself

You can, and it is a wall of raw numbers across dozens of contracts. This turns it into a clear per-currency read so you actually use it instead of skipping it.

Does following institutions mean I am late?

Not when you read positioning as context, not a signal. It tells you whether the big money supports your direction and when the crowd is dangerously stretched.

Trade with the institutions, not against them

Clear COT positioning per currency, plus the daily bias, calendar, and sentiment. One plan, everything included.

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