cftc_spec_divergence
type: Dataset
conforms to: http://mlcommons.org/croissant/1.0
title: COT Speculative Positioning Divergence Index - derived Parquet
description: How stretched speculators are in every futures market: the z-score of net non-commercial positioning (long - short) against its own 3-year baseline, per market and week. +ve = crowded long, -ve = crowded short. Pre-computed from the COT archive.
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-spec-divergence.parquet
record set: cftc-spec-divergence

cftc-spec-divergence.parquet
type: FileObject
encoding format: application/vnd.apache.parquet

cftc-spec-divergence
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 vs 3-yr baseline
data type: Float

unit
type: Field
description: Unit
data type: Text

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