Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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
tags_raw:
- CFTC
- Commitments of Traders
- Federal Government
- Financial
- Futures
- Open Data
- SODA
- Trading
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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
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: 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