🧩 Topics Covered:

• CFTC & the Role of the Commitment of Traders Report
  
  

• Commercial vs. Non-Commercial vs. Non-Reportable Traders
  
  

• Hedging vs. Speculation: Understanding Market Intentions
  
  

• Real Examples (Oil, Gold, Currencies)
  
  

• Inverse & Direct Correlation with Price Movements
  
  

• Trend-Following Strategies by Large Speculators
  
  

• Accessing and Reading COT Data on CFTC
  
  

• Using COT to Confirm or Filter Your Trade Setups

🎯 What You Will Learn:

✔ What the COT Report is and how it's published by the CFTC

✔ Who the key participants are: Commercials, Non-Commercials, and Small Speculators

✔ How to read long vs. short positions and open interest

✔ What “hedging” vs. “speculating” looks like in real trade behavior

✔ How to use COT data in your own technical and fundamental strategy

✔ COT’s relevance in commodities, forex, and even crypto market sentiment

🎯 Why it Matters:

✥ Markets are driven by smart money, not random moves.

✥ The COT Report is your inside window into what institutional players are doing—before major trends unfold.

✥ When you trade with the flow of large speculators or against hedgers at key turning points, you get ahead of reactive retail behavior.

✥ Learning to decode the COT report turns you from a follower into a strategic trader.

Day 13 | COT Report Decoded – How to Read Big Player Positions and Predict Market Moves