The SpreadCharts app is well-known for providing knowledge and options that present a fabric edge within the markets. Different analytical software program usually turns into cluttered with tons of options over time as everybody calls for this or that to be applied. Whereas we take heed to the suggestions from our customers, now we have resisted including every little thing requested. Our motto is “much less is usually extra.”
Right this moment, we’re introducing a brand new knowledge collection within the app that has handed our utility threshold: the non-reportables knowledge within the Commitments of Merchants report. This knowledge has all the time been there, but we neglected it. This group represents the positions of small merchants, normally retail, who are sometimes irrelevant within the grand scheme of issues. They will’t transfer the market on their very own. Nonetheless, their positioning knowledge can nonetheless be helpful as an awesome contrarian indicator. We gained’t faux we found this time collection ourselves. In actual fact, we had been impressed by Tom McClellan, who recurrently makes use of it for silver and different markets.
You could find this small merchants’ knowledge underneath the COT web positions or COT web positions’ index within the SpreadCharts app. No web merchants knowledge is out there for this group.
From our personal expertise, this knowledge is particularly helpful in retail-driven markets like silver. Regardless of not being the biggest gamers, their positioning usually swings from one excessive to a different and can be utilized as a sentiment gauge.
One other nice instance is cryptocurrencies, that are the poster youngster of retail frenzies. We already carefully comply with the online positions of enormous speculators within the Bitcoin and Ether micro contracts on CME, and the small speculators’ knowledge might be fascinating as effectively.
We encourage you to discover the small speculators’ COT web positions in different markets, too. Whereas the signal-to-noise ratio is decrease in some commodities, it’ll give you a significant edge in most markets.
You may browse the brand new knowledge proper now within the SpreadCharts app, both within the free or the premium model.
Simply don’t neglect to fetch the brand new model utilizing Ctrl+Shift+R.
