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Learn COT Report Analysis as a calm daily desk routine.

A COT Report Analysis course that teaches weekly participant positioning as context: confirm report date, commodity, market, and lookback first, then decode buckets, position changes, historical stretch, alerts, and caveated desk notes.

Start first lessonOpen COT Report Analysis

Learning path

Follow the same order as the desk.

Each lesson is crawlable article text plus an interactive artifact and Remotion-ready reinforcement concept.

01COT first readCOT Report Analysis: Start With The Weekly Positioning QuestionA beginner-safe COT lesson for turning the first dashboard view into a weekly positioning question before any signal rail, percentile, or alert label gets interpreted.6 chapters5 video specsOpen lesson02COT participant decoderCOT Report Analysis: Decode Trader Groups Before Reading BiasA beginner-safe COT lesson for translating participant buckets into practical desk questions while keeping CFTC classification limits visible.7 chapters5 video specsOpen lesson03COT position ledgerCOT Report Analysis: Read Net Position And Weekly Change Without PanicA beginner-safe COT lesson for turning long, short, net, weekly change, gross exposure, and open interest into one practical ledger read.7 chapters5 video specsOpen lesson04COT percentile contextCOT Report Analysis: Use Percentiles And COT Index As Context, Not TimingA beginner-safe COT lesson for using percentiles and COT Index as historical context while keeping lookback, category, and no-timing caveats visible.7 chapters6 video specsOpen lesson05COT chart flowCOT Report Analysis: Read Charts For Sponsorship, Cooling, And CrowdingA beginner-safe COT lesson for using chart patterns and open-interest flow to describe participant behavior without forecasting from the chart.7 chapters6 video specsOpen lesson06COT weekly noteCOT Report Analysis: Build The Weekly COT Desk ReadA synthesis lesson for writing one practical COT desk note from the Analysis, Sentiment, Charts, report calendar, and historical case-study surfaces.7 chapters7 video specsOpen lesson07COT squeeze riskCOT Report Analysis: Spot Crowding, Concentration, And Squeeze VulnerabilityAn Advanced-tab COT lesson for using crowding, concentration, squeeze risk, and current price behavior as a disciplined review lens.6 chapters6 video specsOpen lesson08COT advanced lensesCOT Report Analysis: Use Advanced Regime Lenses With HumilityAn Advanced-tab COT lesson for choosing the right advanced lens, checking history depth, and downgrading heuristic labels before writing a desk note.7 chapters7 video specsOpen lesson09COT alert queueCOT Report Analysis: Turn Alerts Into A Review QueueAn Alerts-tab COT lesson for filtering alerts, assigning review depth, routing one adjacent check, and deciding whether to review, downgrade, or ignore an alert.7 chapters7 video specsOpen lesson10COT desk handoffCOT Report Analysis: Write The COT Desk Note And HandoffA COT capstone lesson for writing the final weekly read, naming caveats and invalidation, and routing the hypothesis to Calendar, Fair Value, Pivot, Seasonal, Correlation, or Backtest.6 chapters6 video specsOpen lesson

What the learner should be able to do

Read COT as weekly CFTC futures positioning context rather than live market flow.

Confirm report date, Tuesday data basis, Friday release timing, commodity, market label, and lookback before interpreting the dashboard.

Decode participant groups without turning producer/merchant, swap dealer, managed money, other reportables, or non-reportables into mythic labels.

Read long, short, net, weekly change, open interest, percentiles, and COT Index with the selected history window attached.

Use charts, advanced lenses, and alerts as review context that still needs Fair Value, Pivot, Seasonal, Calendar, Correlation, or Backtest checks.

Desk routine

The repeated habit is the product.

  1. 1Write the weekly positioning question.
  2. 2Check report date, data-as-of date, release cadence, and source label.
  3. 3Choose commodity and verify the CFTC market label.
  4. 4Choose lookback and confirm actual weeks analyzed.
  5. 5Read participant buckets and position fields before summary labels.
  6. 6Attach freshness, classification, lookback, and no-advice caveats.
  7. 7Route the read into a weekly desk note and adjacent-tool challenge.

Source pack

Commitments of Traders

CFTC

Used for the core definition of COT as futures open-interest positioning and for source, reporting, and classification context.

Release Schedule

CFTC

Used for Tuesday data-as-of framing, Friday 3:30 p.m. ET release timing, and holiday-delay caveats.

Disaggregated Explanatory Notes

CFTC

Used to anchor later participant-bucket language and to keep classification caveats visible from the first lesson.

CFTC Commitment of Traders Report User Guide

CME Group

Used as a UX reference for product selection, history range, positions, position changes, percent of open interest, and trader counts.

Commodity Trading Systems Sold on the Internet

CFTC

Used as a guardrail against turning weekly positioning analysis into buy, sell, or mechanical trading-system language.

Explanatory Notes

CFTC

Used for reportable and nonreportable logic, open interest, spreading, percent-of-open-interest, and long/short report structure.