CFTC Commitments of Traders Reports Scraper

Extract official CFTC Commitments of Traders data for commodities positioning, macro research, trading signals, hedge-fund research, and market intelligence pipelines.

Fastest way to try it

Run the prefilled WHEAT search to receive up to 25 recent market-position rows. Each row contains the report date, contract market, commodity, open interest, and long/short positioning fields. Change marketSearch to OIL, GOLD, CORN, or another contract keyword when the starter run succeeds.

Why this actor

COT reports are useful to commodity analysts, macro researchers, hedge funds, trading teams, data vendors, and market-intelligence agents because they reveal weekly futures positioning by participant type. This actor converts official CFTC data into rows that can be filtered, joined, scheduled, and monitored without manually downloading reports.

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Output

• Report date, market, exchange, contract, commodity, and commodity group
• Open interest, managed money long and short positions
• Producer merchant, swap dealer, and nonreportable position fields
• Source URL, raw CFTC row, and scrape timestamp

Use cases

• Monitor futures market positioning by commodity
• Build commodities research and macro dashboards
• Enrich investment research with official weekly COT data
• Feed agent workflows that watch market positioning changes
• Trigger alerts when watched commodities or participant groups shift materially

Example input

{
  "marketSearch": "WHEAT",
  "commodityGroup": "Agriculture",
  "startDate": "2024-01-01",
  "maxResults": 25
}

Agent and automation workflows

Schedule weekly after CFTC updates, send rows to a warehouse, spreadsheet, Slack, Make, n8n, or research database, and let agents summarize positioning changes, long-short shifts, open-interest movement, and market-specific trends.

Responsible use

This actor extracts public CFTC data. Use it for research, analytics, and monitoring. Trading and investment decisions require independent analysis; do not treat automated summaries as financial advice.

Pricing

This actor charges $0.004 per dataset row, or $4 per 1,000 rows. A 25-row starter run costs at most $0.10 in Actor charges; Apify platform usage is separate.