COT-Reports MCP Server

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COT-Reports is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 9 tools.

CFTC Commitments of Traders data for every CFTC futures market: positions, history, COT index.

Uptime history 67 hours of history · worst hour 0%

67 hours agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

82 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

COT-Reports does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 12.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add cot --transport http https://mcp.cot-reports.com

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mcp.cot-reports.com

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.cot]
url = "https://mcp.cot-reports.com"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cot": {
      "url": "https://mcp.cot-reports.com"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "cot": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.cot-reports.com"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 9

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

latest

get_latest_positions

The latest COT report for one market: long, short and net positions of every trader group, the week-on-week change, % of open interest. Without an account and with a free account: the Legacy report. COT Premium and Data API keys: every report family (Legacy, Disaggregated, TFF, Supplemental); COT Premium also adds the close price. Both CFTC variants (Futures Only and Futures & Options Combined) with COT Premium and Data API keys; without an account and with a free account, each report's default variant.

get_latest_snapshot

The latest Legacy COT report of every market, 100 markets per answer (use offset for the next page): net positions of large speculators and commercials, their week-on-week change, and open interest. Filter by category. Available at every level. Both CFTC variants (Futures Only and Futures & Options Combined) with COT Premium and Data API keys; without an account and with a free account, each report's default variant.

cot

get_cot_index

The COT index (0–100: where the current net position sits between its lowest and highest of the lookback window) for large speculators and commercials, from the Legacy report. Without an account: the 26- and 52-week windows; a free account, COT Premium and a Data API key: every window. Both CFTC variants (Futures Only and Futures & Options Combined) with COT Premium and Data API keys; without an account and with a free account, each report's default variant.

explain

explain_cot

A short explanation of a COT concept — the trader groups, net positions, open interest, the four report families, the COT index, release timing — with a link to the full guide. Available at every level.

history

get_history

Weekly COT history for one market, newest first: open interest and the net position of every trader group (up to 260 reports per call; page back with "until"). Without an account: Legacy, the last 26 reports (6 months). Free account: Legacy, the last 520 reports (10 years). COT Premium and Data API keys: every report family and the full history; COT Premium also adds close prices. A new COT Premium subscription that can still be withdrawn from reads the last year of what Premium adds, until the date in its confirmation e-mail. Both CFTC variants (Futures Only and Futures & Options Combined) with COT Premium and Data API keys; without an account and with a free account, each report's default variant.

markets

list_markets

Lists the CFTC markets COT-Reports covers (350+): CFTC code, ticker, name, exchange, category and which report families exist for each. Filter by a search text, a category or a report family. Available at every level.

release

get_release_schedule

Which COT report is the latest, when it was published, and when the next one is due (the CFTC publishes on Fridays at 3:30 pm Eastern for the Tuesday before; holidays move it). Available at every level.

scan

scan_extremes

Markets where large speculators are crowded long or short this week (the Crowding score: a blend of the 26-, 52- and 156-week percentiles of their net position as % of open interest; crowded long from 80 until it falls below 75, crowded short from 20 until it rises above 25), from the Legacy Futures Only report. COT Premium only, as on the website.

weekly

get_weekly_summary

The weekly summary of the 35 main markets (currencies, crypto, metals, energy, agriculture, stock indices) from the latest Legacy report: net positions of speculators and commercials and their change. Available at every level. Both CFTC variants (Futures Only and Futures & Options Combined) with COT Premium and Data API keys; without an account and with a free account, each report's default variant.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.cot-reports.com	streamable-http	answering	82 ms	9 min ago

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COT-Reports — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can COT-Reports do?

It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: explain_cot, get_cot_index, get_history, get_latest_positions, get_latest_snapshot, get_release_schedule and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is COT-Reports working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 82 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists COT-Reports as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect COT-Reports?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does COT-Reports need an API key?

No. COT-Reports completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.