<Definition> The Commitments of Traders (COT) report is a statistical release in which the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) publishes, every week, a breakdown of open interest in futures and futures-options markets as of each Tuesday. It divides total market open interest into reportable positions, held by traders at or above the reporting levels, and nonreportable positions, which make up the remainder. For reportable positions, it further classifies traders by the nature of their business and shows the breakdown of long and short open interest, among other details, for each classification.[1][2]