The COT reports are issued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the ICE Exchange Europe for Brent crude oil and gas oil. They are released every Friday after the U.S. close with data from the week ending the previous Tuesday. They break down the open interest in futures markets into different groups of users depending on the asset class. Commodities: Producer/Merchant/Processor/User, Swap dealers, Managed Money and other Financials: Dealer/Intermediary; Asset Manager/Institutional; Leveraged Funds and other Forex: A broad breakdown between commercial and non-commercial (speculators) The main ... (full story)