COT Currency Futures applied to FX: Indicators available?
I have recently been reading up on how useful currency futures COT data is for determining positions of large speculators and how the FX market moves according to their involvement. There are indicators available for futures traders representing COT data, has anybody heard of or could produce an indicator that would provide signals involving this valuable data inside FX charts?
Hello Stu,
Yes COT Data can be very useful. Some very big high rollers use this data to trade alone. Although I do not, I have seen it been done. I think the COT data is only availble at specific time though. If im not mistaken, which i might, its a graphical representation of commercial traders, non-commercial traders, and smaller retail traders. The way I see it used is similar to a moving average cross over system. But, I beleive this will only be relative to long term trading. Attached is a picture of the graphical indicator. I found it an a currency trader article. It might help. Good luck.
- secXces
Thanks for the graphic, I have never seen it depicted like that before! If I am analyzing this correctly, the green lines represent Large Speculative and the blue lines represent Commercial. We should be following Large Spec if what I have read thus far is accurate, and it appears to be so now that I can visualize it. How cool would it be to have this as an indicator? If a coder out there was able to create such a thing for Metatrader it would be immensely valuable! I have included an attachment of a graphic I have seen for COT data...
COT indicator available
There is a COT indicator available for MT4 ...
thanks
TheImperialOne
Has anybody used this with any success? It's not expensive at all.
yes, I am a subscriber and it works nicely. The data is sent out pretty fast after the government publish it unlike some other sites/offerings. last week it came at jsut after 4pm.
As you say, not very expensive .. half a pip a month.
TheImperialOne
Free Commitments of Data report
Folks,
We're providing the weekly report free to download on our site. But there is a more exciting development - at cot4metatrader.com we have taken it to a new dimension - the COT data right and price action in one place on your MetaTrader4 console.
Take care and happy trading.
TheImperialOne
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thanks
Free COT charting
I believe this is the source for the chart picture you posted.
Commodity Futures Trading Charts
I personally have yet to find a strategy that works.
Matt
Retail Positioning on the EurChf
According to our retail positioning data, retail fx traders continue to add to their long EurChf positions as the EurChf continues to make new lows.
Our indicator has reached a new high, showing 7 traders long for every 1 retail trader short.
Retail traders are long the EurUsd and long the UsdChf as well. If the retail market had a strong bias to be long or short the USD then the UsdChf and EurUsd would be opposite sides.
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I have recently been reading up on how useful currency futures COT data is for determining positions of large speculators and how the FX market moves according to their involvement. There are indicators available for futures traders representing COT data, has anybody heard of or could produce an indicator that would provide signals involving this valuable data inside FX charts?