U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
CFTC Commitments of Traders (public reporting API)
Approved with attributionU.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Metrics fed
6
Observations stored
6,372
Last successful ingestion
2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Expected cadence
weekly (Friday release for Tuesday positions)
stale after 10 days
Source record
Dataset and terms
- Organization
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Dataset
- CFTC Commitments of Traders (public reporting API)
- Documentation
- https://publicreporting.cftc.gov
- Terms of use
- https://www.cftc.gov/Privacy
- License status
- Approved with attribution
- Attribution
- U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
- Geographic coverage
- not recorded
- Temporal coverage
- not recorded
- Update cadence
- weekly (Friday release for Tuesday positions)
- Revision policy
- not recorded
- Authentication
- No API key required. Socrata app token optional for higher limits.
- Rate limits
- Socrata default throttling without an app token.
- Record updated
- 2026-10-19 00:15 UTC
Fed by this source
Metrics
- Natural gas futures: managed-money net positionEnergyObserved
- WTI crude oil futures: managed-money net positionEnergyObserved
- Copper futures: managed-money net positionMaterialsObserved
- Gold futures: managed-money net positionMaterialsObserved
- Corn futures: managed-money net positionFood & WaterObserved
- Wheat futures (SRW): managed-money net positionFood & WaterObserved
Ingestion log
Recent ingestion runs
| Started (UTC) | Status | Duration | Rows seen | Written | Parser | Error summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-19 00:15 UTC | success | 5.9 s | 6372 | 6 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-10-12 00:04 UTC | success | 5.9 s | 6366 | 6 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-10-05 00:04 UTC | success | 6.0 s | 6360 | 6 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-28 00:05 UTC | success | 5.3 s | 6354 | 6 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-21 00:05 UTC | success | 5.5 s | 6348 | 6 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-14 00:06 UTC | success | 5.4 s | 6342 | 6 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 22:03 UTC | success | 6.0 s | 6336 | 0 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 20:15 UTC | success | 5.2 s | 6336 | 0 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |
| 2026-09-07 20:00 UTC | success | 5.4 s | 6336 | 6336 | cftc-cot-socrata/1.0.0 | none |