Users’ guide to the CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) data
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I have put together a couple of auto-updating pages to better analyse the CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) data. The headline summary for last week’s release is as follows:
The page links can be found below, along with a comprehensive users’ guide. ...
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