01Home — The Weekly Briefing
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What it is
Home is the first screen you see after signing in — a daily briefing that distills the entire weekly CFTC report into one glance: who's most bullishly positioned, who's most bearishly positioned, and where the big money just moved. Think of it as the front page of the newspaper; every other panel is a full article.
What it measures
Every row is built from Large Speculator positioning — the hedge funds and CTAs the CFTC forces to report every week. Two numbers drive everything: % long (of all speculator contracts in that market, what share are bets on higher prices) and net position (long contracts minus short contracts). The panel then checks each featured market's recent price trend against that positioning to tell you whether the market is already moving the way the money is leaning.
Why it's useful to you
Ninety percent of retail traders pick a market first and look for reasons second. Home reverses that: in 30 seconds you know where institutional positioning is stretched (reversal watchlist), where it's flowing (momentum watchlist), and whether price has caught up yet. It also answers the quiet question that matters most: is my market boring this week? A market absent from every board has no positioning story — trade it on technicals alone or look elsewhere.
The 10-second read
Scan for EXTREME tags with a teal ✓ — crowded positioning that price is already confirming. Then check the movers strip for any market on your watchlist. Done.
Use it with: COT Scanner (the full ranked board) ·
Flow · Movers (every weekly shift) ·
Market HQ (drill into anything that caught your eye)
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Greeting. Time-of-day aware, using your display name (change it any time via the pencil on your name badge, bottom-left of the dashboard).
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REPORT date — the most important chip on the page. This is the CFTC report week the entire dashboard is reading. COT data is collected each Tuesday and published Friday afternoon — so positioning is always a few days behind price. That lag is normal and built into how every panel should be read.
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STRONGEST BULLISH BIAS board. The five markets where large speculators are most net LONG right now — the crowd's favorite longs, ranked by conviction.
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STRONGEST BEARISH BIAS board. The mirror: the five markets where speculators are most net SHORT. Red bars = short conviction.
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Conviction bar. A visual of how lopsided positioning is — the further the bar extends, the further % long sits from a neutral 50/50. Teal = long-side conviction, red = short-side.
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% long · net. "85.5% long" means 85.5 of every 100 speculator contracts in Gold are bets on higher prices. "net +194.2k" is the raw count: long contracts minus shorts. Percent shows how one-sided; net shows how big.
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Price confluence. ✓ price agrees = the last month of price movement already points the same way as positioning (trend confirmed, but you're later). ○ price not yet confirming = the money is leaning before price has moved (earlier, riskier — watch for the turn). "no price read" = no price data cached for that market this hour.
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EXTREME tag. Positioning is beyond 75% long or below 25% — the crowd is nearly all-in. Extremes are where trends get old and reversals are born, but they can persist for weeks. An EXTREME tag means "investigate," never "trade now" — open Extremes & Percentile and the Pressure gauge next.
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THIS WEEK'S MOVERS. The six biggest week-over-week shifts in speculator positioning. ▲ piled in = aggressive new buying; ▼ bailed = aggressive exit. Flow often precedes the bias boards — this is where next month's extremes are born.
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Quick links. The workflow shortcuts — Scanner, Market HQ, Checklist, Academy. Stage 2 of the reading order lives one click away.
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HOW TO READ THIS. Every panel carries a built-in explainer like this one — collapsed by default, one click open. If you're ever lost on any panel, look for this bar first.