Commitments of Traders (COT) report is issued weekly by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and contains information about market participant long/short positions, open interest, number of big participants and other information useful for traders and hedgers who wish to predict price movements basing on the up-to-date summarized fundamental information. Commitments of Traders (COT legacy) report And now let’s move to futures (and options) market participants and Commitments of Traders report. COT report looks like (more…)

This article is about Larry Williams who wrote a book I have read and became interested in financial markets. Someone knows him someone not. Someone likes his trading style someone not. This article will tell you about a person who made a lot of money trading futures. His trading was based on Commitments of Traders reports and I suppose the most Larry Williams’ well known achievement in trading was in 1987 when he made $1.1 million from $10000 during a year. Therefore I recommend you to read about this person. (more…)