How to Use the COT Report

In this section we will show you how to use the Commitment of Traders (COT) reports to accomplish this goal as we will skillfully explain how to break down the COT data into producers, consumers, and funds so you understand the positions and activities of these key market participants. In addition, you will be able to detect position imbalances that could be harbingers of major trend changes. By analyzing the data provided by the COT report, traders can see the market participants prepared or positioned themselves ahead of significant market turning points and in front of extensive bull and bear markets. tracks the positions (longs and shorts) held by all market participants, my analysis further breaks down this data and applies proprietary statistical measurements and indicators to identify trading opportunities. We combine these indicators with proprietary price indicators and graphically present the results to you.

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Commitment of Traders Report

The Commitments of Traders (COT) reports can be a very powerful trading tool to help anticipate market direction as it provides a breakdown of each Tuesday's open interest for market reports in which 20 or more traders hold positions equal to or above the reporting levels established by the CFTC., and it measures the net long and short positions taken by traders in the futures market. Of course, it is very important to know that For reportable positions, additional data is provided for commercial and non-commercial holdings, spreading, changes from the previous report, percents of open interest by category, and numbers of traders

The report is pretty straight forward, but here's a quick run down of what each category is.
• Non-Commercial – Traders such as individual traders, hedge funds, and financial institutions.

who are looking to trade for speculative gains.
• Commercial - These are the big businesses that describes an entity involved in the production, processing, or merchandising of a commodity that uses currency futures to hedge.

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Getting Sentimental with Forex Trading

Getting Sentimental with Forex Trading

Sentimental analysis is what it sounds like – gauging the market sentiment. What does that mean? Well, as traders, a part of our job is to determine if a market is bullish, bearish, overbought, oversold, and to plan a trade for those market conditions – basically putting all of the things we've learned up until this point all together.

So how do we do that? What tools can we use? And how do we react to certain conditions? Well, that's what we're going to find out today – we're going to take a look into sentiment analysis in forex trading.Now there are a couple of ways to gauge different market conditions.

Does anyone know what those two things are? You guessed it: technical and fundamental analysis. Now, in the School of Pipsology, we've covered most of the commonly used technical indicators out there for forex trading, so you should be an expert at that already right

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