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Commitments of Traders
CME Bitcoin and Ether futures positioning from the weekly CFTC report. Not financial advice.
Bitcoin (CME)
Report dateJun 30, 2026
Leveraged funds — long226
Leveraged funds — short1,585
Asset managers — long0
Asset managers — short0
Ether (CME)
Report dateJun 30, 2026
Leveraged funds — long25,322
Leveraged funds — short116,846
Asset managers — long0
Asset managers — short0
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.