# Market Intelligence API – COT Positioning

> Market Intelligence API – COT Positioning is a paid API for AI agents from api.marketintelligenceapi.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Returns Commitment of Traders (COT) positioning data for a given market, including crowding index and speculator net positions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.marketintelligenceapi.com/api/v1/cot/%7Bmarket%7D?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/market-intelligence-api-cot-positioning-29e03630
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5edM1FRah79BcXQHN2XDL

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-cot-positioning-29e03630
```

Example prompt: What's the current COT positioning for gold — is the trade crowded, and what's the speculator net position?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to assess whether a futures or commodity market is crowded based on official CFTC Commitment of Traders data. Prefer it over general sentiment endpoints when you specifically want institutional and speculator net positioning rather than retail sentiment or price-based signals. Best used before entering a contrarian or momentum trade in commodities, rates, or equity index futures.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or unsupported market symbol returns an error or empty result
- Stale COT data if CFTC release is delayed
- Market parameter missing or malformed causes a 400-level error
- Rate limit exceeded returns a 402 or 429 response

## How this service works

Pay-per-call market intelligence for AI agents across crypto, US and European stocks, rates and FX: on-chain buy/sell pressure, trading decisions from $0.05, token risk checks on six chains, webhook alerts, pre-trade verdicts, technicals, perps funding, smart money, SEC and ESEF fundamentals, insider trades, European short interest, ECB rates and FX, datasets and news.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the market symbol, a numeric COT index (0–100 scale), a positioning label such as CROWDED_LONG or CROWDED_SHORT, and the net speculator contract count. Useful for assessing whether a trade is consensus or contrarian before execution.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "market": "gold",
  "cotIndex": 94.2,
  "positioning": "CROWDED_LONG",
  "speculatorsNet": 245000
 }
}
```

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