The "where's the action" board. Instead of opening 47 charts, the screener ranks every COT market by how stretched its positioning is — reading both legs at once: the commercial index (the hedgers) and the speculator index (Managed Money / Leveraged Funds, the professional crowd). One sorted table, most extreme at the top, with a setup chip that names what kind of stretch each market is showing.

Each market's extremity is the more stretched of its two legs: distance of that leg's 0–100 index from a neutral 50, doubled back to a 0–100 scale. A market counts as "at a positioning extreme" once either leg reaches 70+ or 30-or-below. The setup chip then classifies the shape: ★ CONTRARIAN BULL / BEAR — the high-conviction pattern, commercials AND the crowd both pinned at opposite extremes (on this screenshot, NZD ranks #1 with commercials at 100 against the crowd at 1); COMMERCIALS BULLISH / BEARISH — the hedger leg alone is extreme; CROWD STRETCHED LONG / SHORT — only the speculators are extended, which reads as caution rather than a directional lean.

It solves the search problem, honestly. But understand what the ranking is: extremity is a level, not readiness. The board tells you where the spring is most stretched — it says nothing about whether the spring is about to release, and extremes routinely persist for weeks. So work it as radar, then vetting: the screener produces this week's shortlist; the single-market engines — Pressure & Squeeze, Unwind Tracker, Crowding — tell you whether any name on it is actually primed. A market that tops this board AND shows a pressurized spring is a genuine candidate; a market that merely tops this board is a headline.