# CFTC COT Extremes Screener

> CFTC COT Extremes Screener is a paid API for AI agents from api.nimatron.com, paid per call via x402, $1/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Scans all 438 CFTC markets and returns every market currently at a 52-week positioning extreme (COT index ≥90 or ≤10), identifying crowded longs, crowded shorts, and commercial/speculator divergences.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.nimatron.com/v1/cot/extremes?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $1/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cftc-cot-extremes-screener-1db96d9d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_OxpS8SbHNWFgfsRN4I4OF

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-cot-extremes-screener-1db96d9d
```

Example prompt: Scan all CFTC markets and show me everything currently at a positioning extreme — use a threshold of 90 so I see any market with a COT index above 90 (crowded longs) or below 10 (crowded shorts).

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a broad screener across all 438 CFTC markets to identify positioning extremes in a single call, rather than querying individual markets one by one. Prefer this over the single-market COT endpoint when you want a top-down view of where speculator crowding exists across the entire futures universe. Ideal for weekly positioning reviews, trade idea generation based on contrarian positioning signals, or systematic monitoring of crowded trades.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid threshold value outside 50-100 range returns a validation error
- No markets currently meeting the threshold criteria returns an empty result set
- Stale data if CFTC weekly report has not yet been processed for the current week
- Payment failure (non-payment of $1 USDC x402) returns 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

One call scans all 438 CFTC markets and returns every market at a 52-week positioning extreme (COT index >=90 or <=10): crowded longs, crowded shorts, commercial/spec divergences. The weekly positioning screener trading desks build internally, as an API.

## Output

A list of futures markets from the 438 CFTC-tracked instruments that are currently at 52-week positioning extremes, each with their COT index score, direction of the extreme (crowded long or short), and commercial/speculator divergence data. Results are filtered by the threshold parameter (default 90/10 cutoff).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "threshold": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "COT index cutoff 50-100; returns markets >= threshold (crowded long) or <= 100-threshold (crowded short). Default 90."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/cftc-cot-extremes-screener-1db96d9d/health.json
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