# Market Intelligence API – CFTC COT Futures Positioning

> Market Intelligence API – CFTC COT Futures Positioning is a paid API for AI agents from api.marketintelligenceapi.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-13).

Returns CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) weekly positioning data for a specified futures market, including speculator/hedger/small-trader net positions, 1-week and 4-week changes, COT index (0-100), and crowded long/short signals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/cot/gold?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/market-intelligence-api-cftc-cot-futures-positioning-5e63c4d5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_cpVtSdBmXiboLOwhM_xzA

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 market-intelligence-api-cftc-cot-futures-positioning-5e63c4d5
```

Example prompt: What's the current CFTC COT positioning for gold — are large speculators crowded long or short, and where does the COT index sit right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need institutional-grade futures positioning sentiment — specifically CFTC COT data with speculator/hedger breakdowns, historical COT index, and crowded trade signals — for macro assets including commodities (gold, WTI), equity indices (S&P 500, Nasdaq), rates (Treasuries), FX (EUR, JPY), and crypto (BTC, ETH). Prefer this over generic price or sentiment APIs when the goal is understanding positioning extremes and contrarian signals.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unrecognized symbol returns an error or empty result
- Rate limiting or payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Stale data if CFTC has not yet published the latest weekly report
- Network timeout on the upstream API
- Symbol alias not mapping to a supported market

## How this service works

Use for the futures positioning behind one market ($0.005): CFTC Commitments of Traders weekly history for gold, WTI, S&P 500, Nasdaq, Treasuries, EUR, JPY, bitcoin, ether and more (aliases GOLD, SPY, BTC, EURUSD work): speculators, hedgers and small traders net, 1w/4w change, COT index 0-100 and CROWDED_LONG/SHORT.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with: speculator, hedger, and small-trader net positions; 1-week and 4-week net position changes; a COT index value from 0 to 100 indicating historical extremes; and a CROWDED_LONG or CROWDED_SHORT signal where applicable, all for the requested futures market.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input",
  "output"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "market"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "market": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "gold"
       ],
       "description": "Market key, alias or CFTC code, e.g. gold"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "weeks": {
       "type": "integer",
       "default": 26,
       "maximum": 156,
       "minimum": 4,
       "description": "Weeks of history (4-156)"
      }
     },
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "description": "Example JSON response returned by this endpoint"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": true
  }
 },
 "additionalProperties": false
}
```

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