Chicago Fin Basis
Weekly CFTC positioning for Chicago Fin Basis on ICE OTC: the disaggregated report (managed money, producers, swap dealers), futures only.
In the 2026-09-29 report, managed money was net long 3,982 contracts in Chicago Fin Basis while swap dealers were net long 22,118, so the two camps agree on direction. The COT Index sits at 82%, near the top of its one-year range. Week over week, managed money cut 4,339 net contracts.
3,982
Managed money, net
contracts
22,118
Swap dealers, net
contracts
383,900
Open interest
contracts
82%
COT index, 1 year
top of range
As of 2026-09-29. Positions as of the Tuesday report date; published by the CFTC on Friday.
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Recent Reports
| Date | OI | Managed money, net | Swap dealers, net |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-29 | 383,900 | 3,982 | 22,118 |
| 2026-09-22 | 375,272 | 8,321 | 27,316 |
| 2026-09-15 | 353,107 | 12,586 | 28,100 |
| 2026-09-08 | 352,436 | 9,260 | 22,969 |
| 2026-09-01 | 370,648 | 10,734 | 23,353 |
| 2026-08-25 | 368,563 | 8,493 | 22,920 |
| 2026-08-18 | 362,157 | 2,437 | 25,916 |
| 2026-08-11 | 367,166 | -103 | 25,411 |
| 2026-08-04 | 378,571 | 213 | 28,231 |
| 2026-07-28 | 377,327 | 428 | 27,230 |
| 2026-07-21 | 366,125 | -1,248 | 22,224 |
| 2026-07-14 | 356,532 | -760 | 21,420 |
What the latest data says
As of 29 September 2026, managed money net position in Chicago Fin Basis is net long 3,982 contracts, down 6,752 contracts over the last four weeks. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from -34,341 contracts (16 December 2025) to 12,586 contracts (15 September 2026).
What this data is
CFTC positioning (COT) for Chicago Fin Basis
Every Friday at 3:30 pm Eastern the CFTC publishes who held what in US futures markets as of the previous Tuesday. Large traders are grouped by what they do, not who they are, and the report shows each group's long, short and spread positions. That's the Commitments of Traders report, published weekly for futures on currencies, rates, equity indices, energy, metals and agriculture.
Financial futures use the Traders in Financial Futures format: dealers and intermediaries, asset managers and institutional investors, leveraged funds, and other reportables. Commodities use the disaggregated format: producers, merchants, processors and users; swap dealers; managed money; and other reportables. Positions too small to report are shown as nonreportable in both.
This page follows Chicago Fin Basis only. The full list and the cross-market view live on the CFTC positioning (COT) hub.
Source and updates
- Source
- CFTC Commitments of Traders (Traders in Financial Futures and Disaggregated reports)
- Credit
- CFTC.
- Updates
- Weekly. Positions as of Tuesday, published by the CFTC on Friday at 3:30 pm Eastern and added here the same evening. Latest report 2026-09-29.
- History
- 17 August 2010.
- This series
- 840 weekly reports on file, 2010-08-17 to 2026-09-29.Disaggregated format, futures only, ICE OTC.
- Get the data
- JSON API and CSV download10 requests a minute without a key, 30 with a free key from a free account.
How to read it
- Look at the net position of the speculative category (leveraged funds or managed money) relative to its own history, not its absolute size.
- When speculators and the structural side (asset managers or producers) sit at opposite ends of their own ranges, the two groups are positioned against each other.
- Open interest is the denominator. A net long that grew while open interest shrank is a crowd getting smaller, not more confident.
Analysis of what the data shows, not advice. XOOMAR does not recommend buying, selling or holding anything.
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