Read the market before you trade
How the large operators are positioned on ten markets, and where the US economy stands — both arriving on their own from the official sources. Nothing to type, nothing to pay: COT and Macro are on the free plan.
- Ten COT markets, updated on their own from the CFTC
- Two readings: classic, or hedge funds split from institutions
- 46 US indicators, and a calendar counting down to the next number
- News rules for 16 prop firms, plan by plan
Available on every plan, Free included.
Positioning from the CFTC in two readings, the calendar counting down to the number, and the news rule around it.
Delirium of TradersOn Nasdaq 100 (E-mini) Non-Commercial are long by 10,039 net contracts, 3.3% of open interest. That is average for the last three years (percentile 30). Over the past week they bought 20,455 net contracts.
Data as of 25 Aug 2026, published on 28 Aug 2026.Percentile 30. Positioning is average for the last three years: no excess on either side.
Ten markets, arriving on their own
The Commitments of Traders report, already parsed and drawn, for the markets a futures trader actually watches.
Nothing to type, nothing to pay
NQ, ES, YM, RTY, VIX, the Dollar Index, the T-Note, the Euro, Gold and Oil. The data comes from the CFTC, which publishes it for free, and it arrives by itself — there is no spreadsheet to keep and no subscription to renew.
The chart puts price on top of the positioning, so you are looking at one picture instead of two. The legend is selectable by group, which matters more than it sounds: with every line on at once, none of them are readable.
- Ten markets — NQ, ES, YM, RTY, VIX, DXY, T-Note, Euro, Gold, Oil
- Straight from the CFTC, free, updated on its own
- Price overlaid on the positioning
- Legend selectable by group, so the chart stays readable
Two readings of the same market
There is a switch at the top of the page, and the two settings can disagree with each other. That is not a bug — it is the point.
Classic, or hedge funds split out
Classic is the reading you find on the COT analysis sites: Non-Commercial, Commercial, Retail. It is the one to use if you want to compare with what everyone else is quoting.
Detailed separates hedge funds from institutional funds, which the classic grouping lumps together. On the same market, on the same week, the two can point in opposite directions — they are not two views of the same numbers, they are two different ways of classifying who is on the other side.
- Classic: Non-Commercial / Commercial / Retail
- Detailed: hedge funds separated from institutions
- The two can disagree, and knowing why is half the value
- One switch at the top of the page, no reloading
Moments like today
The useful question is not how they are positioned. It is what happened the last time they were positioned like this.
Bands on the chart
The weeks when positioning looked like it does now are shaded on the chart itself — where you are already looking, not in a table underneath.
What price did after
Each of those moments carries what price went on to do, so a similarity is worth something instead of just being interesting.
It does not stay here
The reading reaches the Dashboard, Hello Trader and the Diary — and, on the paid plans, the Coach and the Backtester, where you can filter your own trades by the regime they were taken in.
Friday's marker
When the new report lands, the Diary shows a small marker on that day, so the review has it in front of it.
Macro: the US economy, on one page
The other half of reading the market. Where the economy stands, what climate you are trading in, and what is about to be published.
Four lights, one number
Volatility, credit, financial conditions and the yield curve, each measured against its own history, then weighted into a single climate score.
How calm is the market you are about to trade?
The score goes from 0 to 100 and says what climate you are in, not where price is going. Each of the four lights shows its value, how it moved, where it sits against its own years and how much risk it carries.
Around it: the volatility climate in two questions — how high, and whether the tension is now or later — the economic cycle clock, the months, twenty years of context, and 46 US indicators, each against its previous reading.
- A climate score from four weighted lights
- 46 US indicators: inflation, jobs, growth, housing
- The cycle clock: which phase the economy is in
- What the market did the last times it was in this state
The calendar, and the rules around it
The number that moves your session, when it comes out, and what your prop firm lets you do around it.
A countdown to the next number
The release calendar with the official dates, local times, impact, previous and forecast — and at the top, how long until the next one.
Straight from the source
The numbers that just came out are read from the official sources. A Fed decision is in the journal within two minutes of the statement.
News rules for 16 prop firms
What you can and cannot do around a release, plan by plan, so the rule is in front of you before the number, not after the breach.
On the free plan
Macro and COT are market reading, and market reading is free. No card, no trial that runs out.
At a glance
The short version, and the one detail worth knowing before you start.
The report is dated Tuesday but published on Friday at 15:30 New York. Every analysis that lines the COT up against your trades compares on the publication date, not on the reference date. Getting that backwards would not throw an error — it would quietly hand you statistics that look far better than they are, because they would be using numbers nobody had yet.
The rest of the journal
One more thing you no longer have to keep by hand
It is already there, on the markets you trade, on the account you already have.
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