Chapter 17

Commitment of Traders Report Part II: Triggers

First published: 02 January 2012

Summary

The Commitment of Traders Report (COT) provides valuable information about pending changes in long-term trends. The report is only useful if an individual knows how to understand the data and how to apply it using triggers. This chapter shows three triggers that can work very effectively with the COT commercials data. The method described is not fully automatic trading system but rather a methodology. Not only does this method require some degree of judgment, but it requires patience since it attempts to capture large moves. This lesson completes work on the COT indicator. It shows three methods for timing markets for large moves using the COT commercials.

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