Learn COT Report Analysis as a 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.
Desk routine preview
Desk question
Whose positioning am I trying to understand, and how fresh is the report?
Evidence cue
COT Report Analysis route, commodity selector, report date, data-as-of label, and top positioning rail
Risk check
COT is a weekly positioning backdrop, not a trade trigger.
Tool handoff
Open COT Report Analysis
Lesson path
Follow the same order as the desk.
- 1COT first readA 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.12 min5 sources
- 2COT participant decoderA beginner-safe COT lesson for translating participant buckets into practical desk questions while keeping CFTC classification limits visible.13 min5 sources
- 3COT position ledgerA beginner-safe COT lesson for turning long, short, net, weekly change, gross exposure, and open interest into one practical ledger read.14 min5 sources
- 4COT percentile contextA beginner-safe COT lesson for using percentiles and COT Index as historical context while keeping lookback, category, and no-timing caveats visible.14 min5 sources
- 5COT chart flowA beginner-safe COT lesson for using chart patterns and open-interest flow to describe participant behavior without forecasting from the chart.14 min5 sources
- 6COT weekly noteA synthesis lesson for writing one practical COT desk note from the Analysis, Sentiment, Charts, report calendar, and historical case-study surfaces.15 min6 sources
- 7COT squeeze riskAn Advanced-tab COT lesson for using crowding, concentration, squeeze risk, and current price behavior as a disciplined review lens.14 min5 sources
- 8COT advanced lensesAn Advanced-tab COT lesson for choosing the right advanced lens, checking history depth, and downgrading heuristic labels before writing a desk note.15 min5 sources
- 9COT alert 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.14 min5 sources
- 10COT desk 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.15 min6 sources