What the COT view shows
Open the Fundamentals page and choose the COT tab. It shows weekly positioning from the CFTC: how the largest traders in each futures market are leaning, long or short, and how that leaning shifted from the week before. The report covers Tuesday positioning and posts once a week, so it is a slow, big picture read, not a live feed. A line at the top tells you the date the positioning is as of and when it was Released, and a Next report countdown shows when the next one is due.
Browse by category
A strip of categories sits above the data: ALL, CURRENCIES, INDICES, FINANCIALS, CRYPTO, METALS, ENERGIES, GRAINS, and SOFTS. Tap one to narrow the view to that asset class, so you can look at just currencies or just metals without the rest getting in the way.
By default the view shows the contracts that map to a symbol you might trade. Use Show all contracts on the right to reveal the full CFTC list, including the smaller and more niche contracts. Tap it again, now reading Show tracked only, to go back to the shorter view.
Read whether traders are net long or short
Each contract has a chart and a row in the table. In the chart, a bar to the right of the center line means large traders are net long, and a bar to the left means they are net short. The longer the bar, the bigger the position.
In the table below, read across a row:
Symbol and Contract name the market.
Net is this week's net position: positive means net long, negative means net short.
Prev Net is where that same net stood the week before.
The Δ column is the change from last week to this week, so a positive number means the position grew more long and a negative number means it shifted shorter.
Trend draws a small line of the last several weeks so you can see the direction at a glance.
Sentiment sums it up as Bullish, Bearish, or Neutral.
When a market's net position is stretched to its widest reading of the last year, the row is marked 52W HIGH or 52W LOW, a quick flag that positioning is at an extreme.
Use it as context, not a signal
COT is background, not a green light. It tells you how crowded a position already is, and whether the crowd is leaning harder or backing off from one week to the next. A net position sitting at a 52W HIGH can mean strong conviction, or it can mean the trade is crowded and running out of new buyers. The data is a week old by the time you read it, so treat it as one more piece of the picture alongside your own plan and your own read of price, and let your setup make the call.