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> Would someone please explain "COT".
"Commitment of Traders." The CFTC requires hedgers and speculators
holding large amounts of contracts in a market to report those
positions. Twice a month, the CFTC takes these reports for each
commodity and produces the COT, which is a numeric rollup of where the
three groups of traders are positioned within a market (the three groups
being commercials or hedgers, large speculators, and everybody else
lumped into the category of "small specs"). Some people have found
value in tracking the degree of hedger involvement in a given market.
Some markets tend to be better than others for this type of analysis.
Sticks
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