Managed Money Positioning API
Where the hedge funds are positioned in commodity futures, read live from the CFTC Disaggregated Commitments-of-Traders report — no key. The legacy COT report lumps every speculator into one "non-commercial" bucket; the Disaggregated report, introduced in 2009 precisely because that was too crude, splits the market into four real groups — Managed Money (the trend-following hedge funds and CTAs, the speculative flow everyone watches), Producer/Merchant (the physical hedgers who make and use the commodity), Swap Dealers (the banks intermediating index and OTC exposure) and Other Reportables. The positioning endpoint returns, for a commodity, the full four-group breakdown — each group's long, short and net contracts, its share of open interest, the number of traders and the week-over-week change — with a managed-money bias read: Managed Money net long in gold of +112,179 contracts (34% of open interest, 74 funds long) tells you the funds are crowded long. The screener endpoint ranks a curated set of 20 metals, energy, grain, soft and livestock futures by where Managed Money is positioned (net as a share of open interest), surfacing the most crowded long and short hedge-fund bets. This is the disaggregated hedge-fund-positioning cut — distinct from the legacy raw COT-report feed, the normalised COT-Index, and the price and open-interest APIs. It is who the smart speculative money is, by the report traders actually read.
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