Understanding the Commitment of Traders Report (COT) - Part 3

How do you make sense of it all, with all the numbers?


COT Report Exported to MS Access

To make it easy for me to interpret the data, I exported the raw COT report into MS Access which allows for easy filing, retrieval and manipulation. Please see the screenshot above for what I have done. It is easy to sort by year, by the commodity, by the exchanges, etc. It is also advisable that you know basic SQL language so that you can play around with the data.

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