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Copper - Commitments of Traders Chart

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We shall look at metals, here we have the Copper Commitments of Traders Chart. Copper - Commitments of Traders Chart The COT chart shows that the bottom for copper is on Mar 2009 and the traders start buying into Copper. Lets look at the London Metals Exchange chart for the prices. Copper - London Metal Exchange Chart You can see that the prices bottom at around the same time and rises up as more and more traders enter long!

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

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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.