Hello Stu,

Yes COT Data can be very useful. Some very big high rollers use this data to trade alone. Although I do not, I have seen it been done. I think the COT data is only availble at specific time though. If im not mistaken, which i might, its a graphical representation of commercial traders, non-commercial traders, and smaller retail traders. The way I see it used is similar to a moving average cross over system. But, I beleive this will only be relative to long term trading. Attached is a picture of the graphical indicator. I found it an a currency trader article. It might help. Good luck.

- secXces

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Thanks for the graphic, I have never seen it depicted like that before! If I am analyzing this correctly, the green lines represent Large Speculative and the blue lines represent Commercial. We should be following Large Spec if what I have read thus far is accurate, and it appears to be so now that I can visualize it. How cool would it be to have this as an indicator? If a coder out there was able to create such a thing for Metatrader it would be immensely valuable! I have included an attachment of a graphic I have seen for COT data...

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There is a COT indicator available for MT4 ...

www.cot4metatrader.com

thanks
TheImperialOne

Has anybody used this with any success? It's not expensive at all.

yes, I am a subscriber and it works nicely. The data is sent out pretty fast after the government publish it unlike some other sites/offerings. last week it came at jsut after 4pm.


As you say, not very expensive .. half a pip a month.

TheImperialOne

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