What it is
COT Intelligence is the signal board: the currency panel that turns raw weekly positioning into a short list of active bullish and bearish signals, a spectrum showing where every currency sits between the two extremes, and auto-surfaced pair matchups. Where the Scanner ranks and the deep panels explain, Intelligence decides what counts as a signal — and shows you only what cleared the bar this week.
What it measures
The engine is the Commercial positioning index (COMM): each currency's Commercial net position placed inside its 3-year range on a 0–100 scale. Platform convention: high COMM = Commercials heavily net long = bullish backdrop. A signal fires only at the edges — COMM ≥ 80 is bullish, ≤ 20 is bearish; everything between is neutral and merely monitored. Each active row also shows the week-over-week change, the net contract position, and the SPEC Positioning Momentum bars (the speculator long/short split). When the COMM signal and the SPEC momentum agree on the same currency, it earns the ⚡ Confluence Score — the strongest read this board produces. The DISAGGREGATED toggle swaps in specialist positioning (Managed Money / Leveraged Funds), read as positioning states rather than buy/sell signals.
Why it's useful to you
Most weeks, most currencies are noise — mid-range positioning with nothing to say. This board's job is to keep you out of those and point you at the exceptions. In the screenshot the week produced 5 bullish, 1 bearish, 2 neutral: NZD's Commercials at 100 (maximum of the 3-year range), GBP at 91, CAD at 91.2 — while USD sits at 12.4, bearish. It then does the pairing math for you: a bullish-extreme currency against a bearish-extreme one is where positioning gives a trade the widest tailwind, and those matchups are surfaced automatically with their COMM spread.
The 10-second read
Read the three counter cards, then the spectrum: flags at the far right are bullish signals, far left bearish. Anything with the ⚡ Confluence mark outranks everything else on the board.
Use it with: The COT Index (how the 0–100 number is built) ·
COT Scanner (the same week across all 47 markets) ·
Market HQ (full workup on any signal currency)
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Panel title. The subheader states the source and both cohorts: CFTC weekly (Legacy, Futures-Only) · Non-Commercial (speculators) & Commercial (hedgers) positioning.
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Signal counter cards. The week in three numbers — Bullish signals (COMM ≥ 80), Bearish signals (COMM ≤ 20), Neutral (everything between). In the screenshot: 5 bullish, 1 bearish, 2 neutral — an unusually loud week.
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Confluence Score ⚡ card. Lists the currencies where the COMM signal and the SPEC momentum both point the same way. Aligned signals are the board's highest-conviction reads; unaligned ones are weaker — the hedgers are leaning but the crowd hasn't followed (or vice versa).
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Top opportunity card. The single widest matchup on the board — in the screenshot SOFR/BTC with a 90.4-point COMM spread. The bigger the spread between one market's index and another's, the harder positioning leans into that pairing.
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LEGACY / DISAGGREGATED toggle + class tabs. Legacy = the Commercial-vs-Non-Commercial beginner lens with the signal semantics above. Disaggregated = the specialist lens (Managed Money for commodities, Leveraged Funds for financials) shown as positioning states — EXTREME / STRETCHED / LEANING — because a speculator extreme is a crowding fact, not a buy signal. Class tabs filter the board.
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The COMM spectrum. Every currency's flag placed along the full 0–100 range — bearish price signal on the left (≤ 20), neutral middle, bullish on the right (≥ 80). One glance shows the whole board's shape: clustered flags mean a quiet week, flags at both walls mean pair opportunities.
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Active signals rows. Only currencies at an extreme appear here, expanded. In the screenshot USD is the lone bearish row — COMM 12.4, meaning the dollar's Commercials are nearly as net short as they've been in three years. Click any row for that currency's full COT detail panel.
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COMM index bar + WoW + net. Each row's bar shows where the index sits in its 0–100 range with the 20/80 signal lines marked, plus the week-over-week change and the Commercials' net contract position — level, direction and size in one line.
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SPEC Positioning Momentum bars. The speculator side of the same currency — the long/short split of Non-Commercial positions. This is the confluence check made visible: a bullish COMM signal with specs already building long earns the ⚡; specs leaning the other way means the hedgers are early and the crowd hasn't turned.
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Neutral currencies section. Everything with COMM between 20 and 80 (AUD and EUR in the screenshot) — compressed to one line each, no signal, monitoring only. Deliberately boring: this section exists so you don't manufacture trades out of mid-range noise.
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Top pair opportunities. Auto-surfaced matchups where one market's index is high (≥ 70) and another's low (≤ 30), ranked by spread with HIGH CONFLUENCE pairs first, each stated as "Long X / Short Y". The screenshot's leader: SOFR/BTC, HIGH CONFLUENCE. Take the pairing to your own chart — this is the wind direction, not the entry.
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Beginner explainer tabs. Four tabs — What is this? / What's the signal? / Who are the groups? / How do I use it? — a built-in mini-course covering the report, the 80/20 thresholds, the three trader groups and the workflow, ending with the rule that governs the whole platform: COT sets the backdrop; your chart times the entry.
