One of the most important aspects concerning commodities is to see and know how the positions held by financial institutions (those who speculate in the market) and operators (those who work with a commodity and access the market for hedging purposes) are divided.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) publishes the Commitments of Traders (COT) report helping the public understand market dynamics. The report shows, for each commodity, the long and short positions held by each market participant.
There are different formats of the report: long or short, with disaggregated or aggregated (Legacy) data, etc. You can find a full explanation of the COT report in my article "What is COT and how to use it."
Generally, the data in the COT reports is from Tuesday and released Friday. The CFTC receives the data from the reporting firms on Wednesday morning and then corrects and verifies the data for release by Friday afternoon.
Below, you can see the last Legacy COT report (Futures only) of your interest by clicking on the relevant link.
Below, instead, you can see the last Disaggregated COT report (Futures only) of your interest by clicking on the relevant link.
You can find more weekly reports on the Commodity Weekly reports page. If you are a commodity trader, you can read more reports on the Commodity reports page and the calendar of the main commodity reports for this year on the page Commodity reports calendar.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) publishes the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports helping the public understand market dynamics. Specifically, the COT reports