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Commitments of Traders

CME Bitcoin and Ether futures positioning from the weekly CFTC report. Not financial advice.

Bitcoin (CME)

Report dateAug 11, 2026
Leveraged funds — long4,997
Leveraged funds — short12,049
Asset managers — long4,741
Asset managers — short2,507

Ether (CME)

Report dateAug 11, 2026
Leveraged funds — long3,558
Leveraged funds — short7,556
Asset managers — long1,279
Asset managers — short4,398

Source: CFTC. Figures are informational and not financial advice.

Reading CME futures positioning

The CFTC’s weekly Commitments of Traders report shows how different trader types are positioned in CME’s regulated Bitcoin and Ether futures — the closest thing crypto has to an institutional-sentiment gauge. Leveraged funds (fast-money speculators) and asset managers (longer-horizon institutions) matter most.

What to watch

  • Extremes in leveraged-fund positioning — very long or very short relative to history — have often preceded reversals, since a one-sided market has more traders who could be forced to unwind.
  • A single week’s report is a data point, not a forecast.
  • This covers CME’s regulated futures only — it misses offshore derivatives exchanges, where much crypto futures volume actually trades.
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