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Futures positioning

get_cot_positioning

Commitments of Traders (legacy, futures only) for a market: speculators' long, short and net positions, net as percent of open interest, weekly change, commercials' and small traders' net, and where the current net sits within the window (percentile, max, min).

Questions it answers

  • Are speculators long or short crude oil?
  • How did positioning in gold futures change this month?

Parameters

ParameterDescription
marketrequired
string
Market name or alias: gold, silver, copper, platinum, crude oil, natural gas, gasoline, corn, wheat, soybeans, coffee, sugar, cocoa, cotton, cattle, hogs, bitcoin, ether, euro fx, yen, pound, dollar index, e-mini s&p 500, nasdaq, russell, 10-year, bonds, vix
weeks
integer = 26

Use it from your agent

Add the TradingData MCP URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client, then ask in plain words. The model sees this tool's description and calls it with the right parameters.

MCP server URL
https://mcp.tradingdata.io

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