OPEN-SOURCE SCRIPT
COT Pulse Cloud Trend
COT Pulse Cloud Trend — Script Description
What it does
COT Cloud plots a translucent price cloud whose color and intensity reflect CFTC Commitment of Traders positioning for the chart's own market — large speculators (Non-Commercial) and/or hedgers (Commercial). It auto-detects the market from the chart symbol and pulls the matching weekly CFTC data automatically; no per-chart setup needed for covered markets.
Data source
Pulls straight from TradingView's own CFTC feed via request.security() — the Legacy report's Non-Commercial/Commercial Long and Short symbols (<code>_F_NCP_L/S, <code>_F_CP_L/S), no exchange prefix. This is the same report definition (noncomm_positions_long_all, comm_positions_long_all, etc.) used by CFTC's own Socrata dataset, so it lines up with the official weekly COT report.
Auto-detection
Reads syminfo.basecurrency/syminfo.currency/syminfo.root to identify the market and looks up its CFTC contract code. Covered: EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, NZD, CAD, CHF; Gold, Silver, Copper, Palladium, Platinum; Wheat, Cotton, Corn, Soybeans, Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa, Live Cattle; WTI Crude Oil, Natural Gas; 2-Year and 10-Year Treasury Notes; Nikkei 225, S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow, Russell 2000, VIX, US Dollar Index, Bitcoin. For USDCAD/USDCHF/USDJPY-style charts (USD as the base currency) and the corresponding CAD/CHF/JPY futures, long and short are swapped so a positive net always means "bullish USD" — CFTC quotes those three the other way round.
If the chart's market isn't in this table, the script does not silently fall back to whatever is in the manual-symbol fields (that would plot a different market's COT data without warning) — it shows a gray "no COT match" label instead. Turn auto-detect off and enter symbols manually to use it on an uncovered market.
Position (what feeds the cloud)
Non-Commercial — large speculators' net (Long − Short)
Commercial — hedgers' net
Difference — Non-Commercial net minus Commercial net
Color by (how it's colored)
Auto (default) — picks the mode a backtest found works best per market: Absolute for Gold, Trend everywhere else, Excel for Difference.
Excel — a 3-point color scale anchored at [min, 50th percentile, max] of the value over a configurable history window: red at the low anchor, white at the median, green at the high anchor, plus a sign-colored border.
Trend — white at the position's own 13-week average, fading to green (more long than usual) or red (more short than usual) with distance from it; blue when both legs are below their own 13-week average ("cooling" interest on both sides).
Absolute — %Long of the current week's total (Long + Short).
Relative — where net positioning sits within its own trailing lookback window (0–100 percentile).
Extreme-reading marker
A small orange triangle appears below the cloud, plus an alert condition, whenever the active reading is in the top or bottom 20% of its scale. A backtest (COT signal vs. forward price return, 1/4/13/26 weeks ahead, across five markets back to 2007) found this is where the spread between the best- and worst-performing readings was consistently widest — i.e. where whatever edge COT positioning carries actually concentrates. It flags "pay attention," not a direction: the same extreme reading preceded further trend continuation in Gold/EUR but reversals in GBP/S&P 500, so read it in the context of the specific market, not as a universal buy/sell signal.
Honest limitations
The backtest behind Auto mode and the extreme marker covered 5 of the many markets this script auto-detects (EUR, GBP, USDJPY, Gold, S&P 500), not all of them — treat the defaults as a reasonable starting point, not a validated rule for every market.
Even where tested, the edge was weak (correlation ~0.1–0.25, hit rate ~50–62%) and only showed up at 13–26 week horizons; a single week's change in positioning carried essentially no signal.
CFTC codes beyond EUR and Gold's Non-Commercial/Commercial symbols were cross-checked across public sources but not individually re-verified live on TradingView — if a market's cloud looks off, search <code>_F_N in TradingView's symbol search to confirm.
This is a slow, structural positioning indicator meant to add context to other analysis — not a standalone timing signal.
What it does
COT Cloud plots a translucent price cloud whose color and intensity reflect CFTC Commitment of Traders positioning for the chart's own market — large speculators (Non-Commercial) and/or hedgers (Commercial). It auto-detects the market from the chart symbol and pulls the matching weekly CFTC data automatically; no per-chart setup needed for covered markets.
Data source
Pulls straight from TradingView's own CFTC feed via request.security() — the Legacy report's Non-Commercial/Commercial Long and Short symbols (<code>_F_NCP_L/S, <code>_F_CP_L/S), no exchange prefix. This is the same report definition (noncomm_positions_long_all, comm_positions_long_all, etc.) used by CFTC's own Socrata dataset, so it lines up with the official weekly COT report.
Auto-detection
Reads syminfo.basecurrency/syminfo.currency/syminfo.root to identify the market and looks up its CFTC contract code. Covered: EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, NZD, CAD, CHF; Gold, Silver, Copper, Palladium, Platinum; Wheat, Cotton, Corn, Soybeans, Sugar, Coffee, Cocoa, Live Cattle; WTI Crude Oil, Natural Gas; 2-Year and 10-Year Treasury Notes; Nikkei 225, S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Dow, Russell 2000, VIX, US Dollar Index, Bitcoin. For USDCAD/USDCHF/USDJPY-style charts (USD as the base currency) and the corresponding CAD/CHF/JPY futures, long and short are swapped so a positive net always means "bullish USD" — CFTC quotes those three the other way round.
If the chart's market isn't in this table, the script does not silently fall back to whatever is in the manual-symbol fields (that would plot a different market's COT data without warning) — it shows a gray "no COT match" label instead. Turn auto-detect off and enter symbols manually to use it on an uncovered market.
Position (what feeds the cloud)
Non-Commercial — large speculators' net (Long − Short)
Commercial — hedgers' net
Difference — Non-Commercial net minus Commercial net
Color by (how it's colored)
Auto (default) — picks the mode a backtest found works best per market: Absolute for Gold, Trend everywhere else, Excel for Difference.
Excel — a 3-point color scale anchored at [min, 50th percentile, max] of the value over a configurable history window: red at the low anchor, white at the median, green at the high anchor, plus a sign-colored border.
Trend — white at the position's own 13-week average, fading to green (more long than usual) or red (more short than usual) with distance from it; blue when both legs are below their own 13-week average ("cooling" interest on both sides).
Absolute — %Long of the current week's total (Long + Short).
Relative — where net positioning sits within its own trailing lookback window (0–100 percentile).
Extreme-reading marker
A small orange triangle appears below the cloud, plus an alert condition, whenever the active reading is in the top or bottom 20% of its scale. A backtest (COT signal vs. forward price return, 1/4/13/26 weeks ahead, across five markets back to 2007) found this is where the spread between the best- and worst-performing readings was consistently widest — i.e. where whatever edge COT positioning carries actually concentrates. It flags "pay attention," not a direction: the same extreme reading preceded further trend continuation in Gold/EUR but reversals in GBP/S&P 500, so read it in the context of the specific market, not as a universal buy/sell signal.
Honest limitations
The backtest behind Auto mode and the extreme marker covered 5 of the many markets this script auto-detects (EUR, GBP, USDJPY, Gold, S&P 500), not all of them — treat the defaults as a reasonable starting point, not a validated rule for every market.
Even where tested, the edge was weak (correlation ~0.1–0.25, hit rate ~50–62%) and only showed up at 13–26 week horizons; a single week's change in positioning carried essentially no signal.
CFTC codes beyond EUR and Gold's Non-Commercial/Commercial symbols were cross-checked across public sources but not individually re-verified live on TradingView — if a market's cloud looks off, search <code>_F_N in TradingView's symbol search to confirm.
This is a slow, structural positioning indicator meant to add context to other analysis — not a standalone timing signal.
Open-source Skript
Ganz im Sinne von TradingView hat dieser Autor sein/ihr Script als Open-Source veröffentlicht. Auf diese Weise können nun auch andere Trader das Script rezensieren und die Funktionalität überprüfen. Vielen Dank an den Autor! Sie können das Script kostenlos verwenden, aber eine Wiederveröffentlichung des Codes unterliegt unseren Hausregeln.
Haftungsausschluss
Die Informationen und Veröffentlichungen sind nicht als Finanz-, Anlage-, Handels- oder andere Arten von Ratschlägen oder Empfehlungen gedacht, die von TradingView bereitgestellt oder gebilligt werden, und stellen diese nicht dar. Lesen Sie mehr in den Nutzungsbedingungen.
Open-source Skript
Ganz im Sinne von TradingView hat dieser Autor sein/ihr Script als Open-Source veröffentlicht. Auf diese Weise können nun auch andere Trader das Script rezensieren und die Funktionalität überprüfen. Vielen Dank an den Autor! Sie können das Script kostenlos verwenden, aber eine Wiederveröffentlichung des Codes unterliegt unseren Hausregeln.
Haftungsausschluss
Die Informationen und Veröffentlichungen sind nicht als Finanz-, Anlage-, Handels- oder andere Arten von Ratschlägen oder Empfehlungen gedacht, die von TradingView bereitgestellt oder gebilligt werden, und stellen diese nicht dar. Lesen Sie mehr in den Nutzungsbedingungen.