TFF Positioning API
Where the leveraged funds and the asset managers are positioned in the financial futures — currencies, stock indices and interest rates — read live from the CFTC Traders in Financial Futures (TFF) report, no key. For financial futures the CFTC publishes a dedicated breakdown the commodity-style reports do not: Dealer/Intermediary (the sell-side banks), Asset Manager/Institutional (pension funds, mutual funds and insurers — the real-money long-term side), Leveraged Funds (hedge funds and CTAs — the fast speculative money) and Other Reportables. The split between Leveraged Funds and Asset Managers is the one macro traders watch: in the Treasury complex, leveraged funds run the famous cash-futures basis trade short while asset managers sit long, and the gap is a systemic-risk gauge. The positioning endpoint returns, for a market, the full four-group breakdown — each group's long, short and net contracts, share of open interest, trader count and week-over-week change — with a leveraged-funds bias read. The screener endpoint ranks a curated set of 17 FX, equity-index and interest-rate futures by where the leveraged funds (or the asset managers) are net positioned, surfacing the most crowded macro bets. This is the financial-futures TFF positioning cut — distinct from the legacy COT feed, the normalised COT-Index, the commodity Managed-Money report and the price APIs. It is who the hedge funds and the real money are, in the markets that move macro.
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