# Cotton No. 2 Positioning Momentum Intelligence

> Cotton No. 2 Positioning Momentum Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from pay.edge-agents.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Delivers evidence-backed Cotton No. 2 futures positioning and momentum analysis with provenance, contradictions, and bounded decision support for business leaders and AI agents.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://pay.edge-agents.ai/v1/services/cotton-2-positioning-momentum
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cotton-no-2-positioning-momentum-intelligence-452df3da
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_SlM37xpKgmnk5cQ2OtmUT

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 cotton-no-2-positioning-momentum-intelligence-452df3da
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest Cotton No. 2 positioning momentum report from Edge Agents — I need the evidence quality, confidence level, and provenance so I can brief our strategy team on where cotton futures stand right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need evidence-backed, provenance-signed Cotton No. 2 futures positioning and momentum intelligence with explicit confidence levels, contradictions flagged, and source attribution — particularly for strategy teams, AI agents, or executives who require bounded decisions rather than raw data. Prefer this over generic commodity feeds when auditability, quality status, and decision provenance matter. Best suited for point-in-time snapshots rather than continuous streaming.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or x402 payment protocol failure — endpoint returns 402 Payment Required
- Report data temporarily unavailable — dataStatus field may indicate incomplete coverage
- Stale or delayed market data — generatedAt timestamp indicates report freshness; sources stated in report
- Network timeout or upstream data provider outage — retry after brief interval
- Invalid request format — malformed query parameters cause 400-level errors

## How this service works

Direct CFTC weekly changes in managed-money long, short and spread positions for Cotton No. 2, including the resulting change in net positioning. Purpose: Detect whether reported managed-money positioning in Cotton No. 2 shifted toward net-long, net-short or stable exposure in the latest CFTC week. 168-hour freshness target; missing evidence is reported explicitly rather than invented.

## Output

Returns a JSON report containing: quality status (e.g. 'strong') and confidence level (e.g. 'high'); an analysis object with commodity family, intent tags (momentum, evidence, positioning, commodities), and a narrative summary of Cotton No. 2 positioning momentum findings; an evidence block listing covered assets (COTTON), data policy (point-in-time), and actual live sources; provenance metadata including issuer URL and signing status; a generatedAt timestamp; schema version; and disclaimers with coverage limitations.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "quality": {
   "status": "strong",
   "confidence": "high"
  },
  "analysis": {
   "family": "agriculture",
   "intents": [
    "momentum",
    "evidence",
    "positioning",
    "commodities"
   ],
   "summary": "Fresh Cotton No. 2 Positioning Momentum findings appear here."
  },
  "evidence": {
   "assets": [
    "COTTON"
   ],
   "policy": "point-in-time",
   "sources": "Reported from the actual live report; never inferred from this example."
  },
  "serviceId": "cotton-2-positioning-momentum",
  "dataStatus": "complete",
  "disclaimer": "General, impersonal market research; not investment advice or a buy, sell or hold recommendation.",
  "provenance": {
   "issuer": "https://edge-agents.ai",
   "signed": true
  },
  "generatedAt": "2026-08-31T00:00:00.000Z",
  "limitations": [
   "Coverage, source freshness and unavailable evidence are stated in every paid report."
  ],
  "schemaVersion": "2.0"
 }
}
```

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