The government keeps tabs on all of us who trade, using this information to your advantage can be one of the significant keys to success.*

The Commitment of traders tells you what everyone else is trading. By following the lead of the large banks and hedge fund managers, we can significantly reduce our risk of being on the wrong side of the “big money” on Wall Street.*

Never be on the wrong side of a market again*

Small Speculators:

Small Speculators are considered to be the individual investors, generally traders like you and me, or what is known as the “retail trader.” Investors who trade their own money, for their own benefit.

• Small Speculators within in the Track ‘n Trade COT Plug-in are indicated below the chart in the default color of green.
• In this chart example, you can see the number of small speculators who are both long and short are represented directly below the actual price chart.
• In this particular view, you can see how many traders are long, (bright green above the zero line.) against how many are trading short, (darker green below the zero line.)

Large Speculators:

Large Speculators are generally banks and hedge fund managers, and are usually doing this type of investing using other peoples money, but the nice thing is, that their goal is exactly as is ours, to profit from large moves in the market.

• Large Speculators within in the Track ‘n Trade COT Plug-in are indicated below the chart in the default color of blue.
• In this chart example, you can see the number of large speculators who are both long and short are represented directly below the actual price chart.
• In this particular view, you can see how many large specs are long, (bright blue above the zero line.) against those trading short, (dark blue below the zero line.)

Commercial Traders:

Large Commercial Traders are generally producers such as farmers, or large factories. The confusing part about the large speculators, is that we don’t really know their full intention., why they are long, or why they are short. They generally have different motives than we do as speculators.

• Notice that there are actually more short positions during this obvious up-trend than their are long positions.
• The Commercials within in the Track ‘n Trade COT Plug-in are indicated below the chart in the default color of red.
• In this particular view, you can see how many large specs are long, (bright red above the zero line.) against those trading short, (dark red below the zero line.)

Composite View, All Three:

Large Commercials, indicated in red, large speculators, indicated in blue, and small speculators indicated in green.

• With this view, the histogram has been set to display both longs and shorts of each composite group; allowing you to see which markets have larger holdings on the short side of the market than the long side.
• Track ‘n Trade’s COT Plug-in also gives you the ability to turn on proprietary, user definable and customizable buy/sell signals, which can be traded manually, or using our Autopilot system.
• In the chart panel, you can also see historical price averages displayed as an overlay directly over the chart itself. Where was the market and what was the average over the past two, three, four years back or more!