Live Cattle
Weekly CFTC positioning for Live Cattle on Chicago Mercantile Exchange: the disaggregated report (managed money, producers, swap dealers), futures only.
In the 2026-10-20 report, managed money was net long 51,102 contracts in Live Cattle while swap dealers were net long 72,284, so the two camps agree on direction. The COT Index sits at 4%, near the bottom of its one-year range. Week over week, managed money added 2,884 net contracts.
51,102
Managed money, net
contracts
72,284
Swap dealers, net
contracts
289,575
Open interest
contracts
4%
COT index, 1 year
bottom of range
As of 2026-10-20. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-20 | 289,575 | 51,102 | 72,284 |
| 2026-10-13 | 293,427 | 48,218 | 72,362 |
| 2026-10-06 | 293,647 | 50,695 | 67,707 |
| 2026-09-29 | 293,639 | 53,193 | 65,281 |
| 2026-09-22 | 284,889 | 49,090 | 64,316 |
| 2026-09-15 | 282,118 | 47,696 | 65,224 |
| 2026-09-08 | 294,350 | 48,905 | 65,233 |
| 2026-09-01 | 300,731 | 48,851 | 68,818 |
| 2026-08-25 | 288,743 | 59,729 | 65,757 |
| 2026-08-18 | 280,826 | 62,967 | 64,260 |
| 2026-08-11 | 276,625 | 65,949 | 63,369 |
| 2026-08-04 | 291,760 | 64,966 | 61,170 |
| 2026-07-28 | 298,449 | 67,025 | 61,596 |
| 2026-07-21 | 303,089 | 75,681 | 63,096 |
| 2026-07-14 | 311,766 | 98,135 | 59,937 |
| 2026-07-07 | 316,893 | 114,908 | 58,512 |
| 2026-06-23 | 328,903 | 125,583 | 56,630 |
| 2026-06-16 | 329,990 | 122,805 | 56,633 |
| 2026-06-09 | 317,380 | 109,072 | 57,191 |
| 2026-06-02 | 343,287 | 116,107 | 55,581 |
| 2026-05-26 | 349,927 | 120,542 | 55,374 |
| 2026-05-19 | 364,542 | 127,747 | 59,639 |
| 2026-05-12 | 354,995 | 128,954 | 59,613 |
| 2026-05-05 | 360,025 | 138,018 | 59,631 |
| 2026-04-28 | 350,035 | 131,560 | 60,685 |
| 2026-04-21 | 339,003 | 132,816 | 60,819 |
| 2026-04-14 | 340,989 | 132,839 | 60,398 |
| 2026-04-07 | 343,368 | 129,416 | 59,514 |
| 2026-03-31 | 339,048 | 119,553 | 56,184 |
| 2026-03-24 | 334,831 | 107,593 | 55,661 |
| 2026-03-17 | 334,142 | 103,143 | 58,686 |
| 2026-03-10 | 334,594 | 105,910 | 58,338 |
| 2026-03-03 | 342,175 | 112,044 | 60,158 |
| 2026-02-24 | 341,685 | 116,963 | 62,384 |
| 2026-02-17 | 330,128 | 115,052 | 59,594 |
| 2026-02-10 | 325,815 | 106,639 | 59,365 |
| 2026-02-03 | 336,190 | 111,771 | 55,517 |
| 2026-01-27 | 332,214 | 104,399 | 55,311 |
| 2026-01-20 | 329,644 | 101,471 | 57,087 |
| 2026-01-13 | 324,599 | 100,338 | 57,741 |
| 2026-01-06 | 331,020 | 93,727 | 56,850 |
| 2025-12-30 | 327,077 | 92,214 | 56,307 |
| 2025-12-23 | 326,084 | 93,314 | 56,748 |
| 2025-12-16 | 322,316 | 89,587 | 54,726 |
| 2025-12-09 | 318,509 | 86,434 | 53,777 |
| 2025-12-02 | 331,171 | 81,836 | 48,755 |
| 2025-11-25 | 332,580 | 91,268 | 46,032 |
| 2025-11-18 | 333,615 | 96,027 | 45,455 |
| 2025-11-10 | 337,904 | 101,177 | 43,878 |
| 2025-11-04 | 341,083 | 107,500 | 40,830 |
| 2025-10-28 | 343,707 | 115,139 | 39,158 |
| 2025-10-21 | 362,689 | 121,472 | 36,493 |
What the latest data says
As of 20 October 2026, managed money net position in Live Cattle is net long 51,102 contracts, up 2,012 contracts over the last four weeks. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from 47,696 contracts (15 September 2026) to 138,018 contracts (5 May 2026). The latest reading sits at the bottom of that range.
What this data is
CFTC positioning (COT) for Live Cattle
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 Live Cattle 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 2026-10-20.
- History
- 5 January 2010.
- This series
- 876 weekly reports on file, 2010-01-05 to 2026-10-20.Disaggregated format, futures only, Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
- 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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