I use the one year chart to look at the larger COT changes, but for Extremes I like the longer 5 year charts. Unfortunately you can't view longer charts yet, but I've contacted them about this and received the reply that they are working on it... I ...

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I use the Classic COT report and I trade on a longer time basis (few weeks or even months). I don’t think that COT analysis would be as useful for shorter term trades, for day traders. You are correct that at extremes, usually the Commercials are ...

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Hi Viv108, Thanks for your kind words To answer your question, I get these charts from COTbase.com a web based service I use. Before I tried to create them myself in MetaStock, but it took too much time an effort so I was really glad to find them ...

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Cocoa was also mentioned in the review, cause the change size in Commercials position was larger than average. It was 28% to be exact. Now this market could be a good example, how to react to a market, where we haven’t got an extreme COT picture. It ...

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Hi everyone, As I have promised last Friday, today I shall start bringing recent examples to this forum. There is a so called „weekly COT review” that I follow on YouTube, the service that I’m using sends me these videos every week. One of the most ...

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Thanks Manekineko for you post, excellent chart you have there!!! Exactly what I’m looking at also in a different way! In the latest report (30th this year) you could find a pretty extreme situation in the COT report: Commercials are at a 434 report ...

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COT analysis is definitely not for very short term traders, its best applied in a system that trades longer term. In my experience there are times when maybe even for 3 month you will not find a decent COT signal and times when the density of ...

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I’m very happy to see that there is interest amongst you towards this report and the COT analysis that I know of! Oz, The service that I use has a page called Resources. There they list a couple of the best books that are related to the Commitments ...

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We have come to the point where I have mentioned all the COT analysis tools that I use, so I would like to sum it up now in a few words: 1) COT Change: It compares the level of the change in COT data to a predefined range of the data and shows this ...

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Only on those currencies, which have futures contract and corresponding COT report, these are: Australian Dollar, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Euro, Japanese Yen, Swiss Franc, USD Index, Mexican Peso Obviously if you trade one of these pairs, you ...

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Follow the smart money / Large Speculators It is important to see that in the long term, Large Speculators are the ones, who are following the trend, so it is important to have your eyes on them all the time. In the following example you should see ...

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COT Index In the following example I would like to explain to you another great COT analysis tool, the COT Index. It is also a measuring “device” for extreme pictures in the Commitments of Traders report, but here the Index shows us in percentage – ...

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EXTREME COT CHANGES The title sounds similar to the previous, the difference here is that we are looking at sudden large changes in the positions held by the main participants of the markets (C-LS-SS). To give you a great example, let me show you an ...

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Hi everyone, I’m happy to see that there are a lot of you interested in COT analysis, I’ll try my best to give as much info about it as I can! Let me answer your questions --> Hyperfish What a great question, very important --> I would like ...

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COT EXTREME signals I think one of the best tools in COT analysis is the COT Extremes. It basically shows you where the given COT level stands historically. So if a reading says 93 for example, then it means that the current level of Open Interest ...

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Hi Custos, You are right that this report is most useful on futures markets, so traders who trade only regular stocks might not have interest in it. But the 46 markets that I monitor each week (see the list attached) carry great opportunities. I ...

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Hi gmambart, I'm also analyzing COT charts. The 5 year chart on the EUR shows that the COT extreme had only a minor effect on the market, prices further dropped. I won’t be looking to the long side, until I see an even greater extreme picture, I ...

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