cftc_crowding_alerts
type: Dataset
conforms to: http://mlcommons.org/croissant/1.0
title: COT Extreme Crowding Alerts Database - derived Parquet
description: Every instance where speculators reached an extreme in a futures market - net-positioning z-score beyond ±2 vs its 3-year baseline. The crowded-trade reversal watchlist, pre-filtered from the full COT history so you don't have to compute it.
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
creator: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
publisher: ReadySet
keywords: Finance
keywords: official-data
keywords: AI-training-safe
keywords: redistributable
keywords: time-series
keywords: parquet
temporal coverage: 1988-03-15/2026-07-21
distribution: cftc-crowding-alerts.parquet
record set: cftc-crowding-alerts

cftc-crowding-alerts.parquet
type: FileObject
encoding format: application/vnd.apache.parquet

cftc-crowding-alerts
type: RecordSet
field: zone
field: ts
field: z_score
field: unit
field: res_min

zone
type: Field
description: Market & exchange name
data type: Text

ts
type: Field
description: Report week
data type: DateTime

z_score
type: Field
description: Net-spec positioning z (|z| ≥ 2)
data type: Float

unit
type: Field
description: Unit
data type: Text

res_min
type: Field
description: Native resolution (weekly = 10080)
data type: Integer