# CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Futures Positioning

> CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) Futures Positioning is a paid API for AI agents from cycle-angela-lamp-hamburg.trycloudflare.com, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the latest CFTC weekly COT report data — commercial and non-commercial long, short, and open interest positions by futures market, filterable by market name.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://cycle-angela-lamp-hamburg.trycloudflare.com/api/us/cot-positioning
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: down
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cftc-commitments-of-traders-cot-futures-positioning-2b0341a3
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_nm-4VsqpB8XpBHlz43CzQ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability cftc-commitments-of-traders-cot-futures-positioning-2b0341a3
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest CFTC Commitments of Traders positioning data for crude oil futures — I want to see commercial and non-commercial longs, shorts, and open interest from the most recent weekly report.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured CFTC COT positioning data — particularly commercial vs. non-commercial long/short breakdown and open interest — for specific futures markets. Prefer this over scraping CFTC directly since it returns clean JSON with historical depth (up to 40 reports) and supports market name filtering. Best for sentiment analysis, market regime detection, and crowd positioning studies across commodities, financials, and currencies.

## Known failure modes

- Market name filter matches nothing — returns empty reports array with no_signals: true
- Cloudflare tunnel unavailable — connection error or 5xx response
- Payment not provided or invalid x402 header — 402 Payment Required response
- Market name filter misspelled — no matching results returned
- Data staleness — CFTC publishes weekly so data may be up to 7 days old

## How this service works

Commitments of Traders futures positioning: commercial and non-commercial long short open interest by futures market, latest CFTC weekly report. JSON array. Pass optional ?q=<market name filter>.

## Output

A JSON object containing a 'reports' array of up to 40 weekly CFTC COT records, each with date, market name, commercial long/short, non-commercial long/short, and open interest values (all as strings), plus a 'no_signals' boolean and a 'generated_at' Unix timestamp indicating when the payload was built.

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "reports": {
   "type": "array",
   "items": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
     "date": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "market": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "comm_long": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "comm_short": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "noncomm_long": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "noncomm_short": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "open_interest": {
      "type": "string"
     }
    }
   },
   "description": "CFTC Commitment of Traders, latest 40 reports"
  },
  "no_signals": {
   "type": "boolean"
  },
  "generated_at": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "unix seconds when payload was built"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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