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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 4, 2026
Leveraged funds — long4,243
Leveraged funds — short11,483
Asset managers — long4,764
Asset managers — short2,222

Ether (CME)

Report dateAug 4, 2026
Leveraged funds — long2,923
Leveraged funds — short6,128
Asset managers — long874
Asset managers — short4,493

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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