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Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the U.S. federal regulator for commodity futures and options markets. The CFTC publishes the weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report and other public data through a Socrata Open Data API at publicreporting.cftc.gov, providing programmatic access to Legacy, Disaggregated, Traders in Financial Futures, and Supplemental Commodity Index Trader datasets, as well as swap data and large trader reports.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including COT API, Disaggregated API, Legacy API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include CFTC, Commitments of Traders, Federal Government, Financial, and Futures.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s developer surface includes documentation and 11 more developer resources.

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41.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemium
7 APIs
CFTCCommitments of TradersFederal GovernmentFinancialFuturesOpen DataSODATrading

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 41.0/100 · thin
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 3.8 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

CFTC Swap Data Repositories

The CFTC oversees Swap Data Repositories (SDRs) that collect and maintain swap transaction records as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. SDRs publish certain real-time public data ...

CFTC Bank Participation and Large Trader Reports

The CFTC publishes monthly Bank Participation reports and other aggregate large trader reports that complement the weekly COT data. These reports are released as PDFs and HTML t...

Commodity Futures Trading Commission COT API

Commitments of Traders datasets

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Disaggregated API

Disaggregated COT report format

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Legacy API

Legacy COT report format

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Supplemental API

Supplemental Commodity Index Trader format

Commodity Futures Trading Commission TFF API

Traders in Financial Futures format

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

CFTC Commitments of Traders (COT) SODA API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Cftc Cot Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission API Rules

6 rules · 4 errors 2 warnings

SPECTRAL

Commodity Futures Trading Commission API Rules

4 rules · 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CFTC Commitments of Traders Row

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Agentic Access

7 operations

7 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema
JSONSchema
 Documentation
Documentation
 Reference
Reference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD
JSONLD
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 SpectralRules
SpectralRules

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Capability
Capability

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/commodity-futures-trading-commission/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
kind: government
description: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is the U.S. federal regulator for commodity futures and options
  markets. The CFTC publishes the weekly Commitments of Traders (COT) report and other public data through a Socrata Open
  Data API at publicreporting.cftc.gov, providing programmatic access to Legacy, Disaggregated, Traders in Financial Futures,
  and Supplemental Commodity Index Trader datasets, as well as swap data and large trader reports.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/commodity-futures-trading-commission.png
tags:
- CFTC
- Commitments of Traders
- Federal Government
- Financial
- Futures
- Open Data
- SODA
- Trading
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission:cftc-swap-data-repositories
  name: CFTC Swap Data Repositories
  description: The CFTC oversees Swap Data Repositories (SDRs) that collect and maintain swap transaction records as required
    by the Dodd-Frank Act. SDRs publish certain real-time public data and the CFTC publishes aggregate weekly swap reports.
  humanURL: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/SwapsReports/index.htm
  baseURL: https://www.cftc.gov
  tags:
  - Dodd-Frank
  - Swaps
  - SDR
  - Reporting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/SwapsReports/index.htm
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/IndustryOversight/DataRepositories/index.htm
  x-features:
  - Weekly Swaps Report aggregates dealer activity
  - Real-time public dissemination of swap transactions via SDRs
  - Coverage of credit, interest rate, FX, and commodity asset classes
  x-useCases:
  - Monitor weekly swap dealer activity
  - Research aggregate gross notional outstanding by asset class
  - Track post-Dodd-Frank market structure changes
- aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission:cftc-large-trader-reporting
  name: CFTC Bank Participation and Large Trader Reports
  description: The CFTC publishes monthly Bank Participation reports and other aggregate large trader reports that complement
    the weekly COT data. These reports are released as PDFs and HTML tables on cftc.gov.
  humanURL: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/BankParticipationReports/index.htm
  baseURL: https://www.cftc.gov
  tags:
  - Bank Participation
  - Large Trader
  - Reporting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/BankParticipationReports/index.htm
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/index.htm
  x-features:
  - Monthly bank participation in futures markets
  - Industry-level breakdowns of large trader positions
  - Released as HTML and PDF; not currently exposed via SODA
  x-useCases:
  - Track bank participation in major futures markets
  - Research banks' net exposure across commodity sectors
- aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission:commodity-futures-trading-commission-cot-api
  name: Commodity Futures Trading Commission COT API
  description: Commitments of Traders datasets
  humanURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  baseURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/resource
  tags:
  - COT
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commodity-futures-trading-commission-cot-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
  - type: Reference
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/publicreporting.cftc.gov
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cftc-cot-schema.json
- aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission:commodity-futures-trading-commission-disaggregated-api
  name: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Disaggregated API
  description: Disaggregated COT report format
  humanURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  baseURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/resource
  tags:
  - Disaggregated
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commodity-futures-trading-commission-disaggregated-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
  - type: Reference
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/publicreporting.cftc.gov
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cftc-cot-schema.json
- aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission:commodity-futures-trading-commission-legacy-api
  name: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Legacy API
  description: Legacy COT report format
  humanURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  baseURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/resource
  tags:
  - Legacy
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commodity-futures-trading-commission-legacy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
  - type: Reference
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/publicreporting.cftc.gov
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cftc-cot-schema.json
- aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission:commodity-futures-trading-commission-supplemental-api
  name: Commodity Futures Trading Commission Supplemental API
  description: Supplemental Commodity Index Trader format
  humanURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  baseURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/resource
  tags:
  - Supplemental
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commodity-futures-trading-commission-supplemental-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
  - type: Reference
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/publicreporting.cftc.gov
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cftc-cot-schema.json
- aid: commodity-futures-trading-commission:commodity-futures-trading-commission-tff-api
  name: Commodity Futures Trading Commission TFF API
  description: Traders in Financial Futures format
  humanURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  baseURL: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/resource
  tags:
  - TFF
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/commodity-futures-trading-commission-tff-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
  - type: Reference
    url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
  - type: Reference
    url: https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/publicreporting.cftc.gov
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cftc-cot-schema.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/commodity-futures-trading-commission-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/commodity-futures-trading-commission-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/commodity-futures-trading-commission
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cftc.gov/
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/cftc-cot-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/cftc-cot-schema.json
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/cftc-cot-vocabulary.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/cftc-cot-rules.yml
- type: Capability
  url: capabilities/query-commitments-of-traders.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://publicreporting.cftc.gov/
- type: Reference
  url: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/index.htm
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cftc.gov/About/AbouttheCFTC/Privacy.html
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com