CFTC Week 23 prints 100% total open-interest concentration on pollution, natural gas, electricity, and the Bloomberg Commodity Index while electricity commercial long share spans 22.6%–75.4% across contract lines. Updated at 25 August 2026. FinUties · Market Regime · Uniform concentration, divergent hedger shares Scope This edition maps cross-asset regime signals from listed-futures positioning: who holds marginal risk, how concentrated open interest is, and whether leadership looks narrow or diffuse. It is interpretive research, not investment advice. No single contract or metric defines a regime label on its own; the read depends on how positioning patterns align—or fail to align—across asset classes. Sources in this edition - Disaggregated futures open interest by trader category — provider: US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC); geography: United States (contract-level); frequency: weekly (Commitments of Traders report); meaning: the share of open interest held by commercial hedgers versus managed-money speculators, indicating who carries marginal risk in each listed contract. - Legacy commitment-of-traders positioning (all contracts) — provider: CFTC; geography: United States (contract-level); frequency: weekly; meaning: total open-interest concentration and contract counts under the legacy COT classification, a cross-check on crowding and breadth. - Legacy commitment-of-traders positioning (combined) — provider: CFTC; geography: United States (contract-level); frequency: weekly; meaning: combined futures-and-options positioning breadth and open-interest levels where the legacy combined report applies. - Legacy commitment-of-traders positioning (futures only) — provider: CFTC; geography: United States (contract-level); frequency: weekly; meaning: futures-only open-interest concentration and contract totals across commodity, equity-index, and currency lines. - Positioning data (citall facts) — provider: official and market data via FinUties ingest; geography: series-dependent (US-listed agricultural and soft commodities in this pull); frequency: per upstream CFTC publication schedule; meaning: absolute open-interest contract counts that scale positioning intensity across the agricultural complex. - Disaggregated futures open interest by trader category (all contracts) — provider: CFTC; geography: United States (contract-level); frequency:…
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