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Canadian dollar: Commitments of Traders

CFTC positions as of the close on 13 October 2026. CANADIAN DOLLAR - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, contracts of cad 100,000.

Speculators net short92,816

Change on the week−2,809

Rank in 2 years59th

Open interest399,645

This week

In the week to 13 October 2026, non-commercial traders in Canadian dollar held a net short position of 92,816 contracts. That is 2,809 contracts fewer than a week earlier. Commercial traders were net long 102,929, which is the other side of the same market. A year ago the speculative net was short 136,852, so it has moved by 44,036 contracts since. Longs were 33.0% of speculative positions. 152 traders reported.

Bar charts in detail

1. Who is long and who is short, in the week to 13 October 2026

Short positions extend to the left in red, long positions to the right in blue, each scaled against the biggest single side in this market. Percentages are of open interest.

Non-commercial (speculators) net −92,816

183,285 45.9% 90,469 22.6%

Commercial (producers, hedgers) net +102,929

159,363 39.9% 262,292 65.6%

Non-reportable (small traders) net −10,113

40,954 10.2% 30,841 7.7%

2. How the week's change was made

Change in each side since the previous report, as published by the CFTC. A rising net can come from longs being added, shorts being closed, or both; this shows which.

Non-commercial long −1,118

Non-commercial short +1,691

Commercial long +4,547

Commercial short +4,734

Open interest +5,075

3. Speculative net position, week by week

Last 52 weeks. Blue bars are net long, red bars net short. Hover a bar for the week and the value.

4. Weekly change in the speculative net

Blue bars: speculators added to their net position that week. Red bars: they reduced it. Tall bars of either colour are the unusual weeks.

5. Open interest, week by week

Total contracts outstanding. Rising open interest means money is entering the contract; falling means positions are being closed.

Where each group sits against its own year

0 means a group is at its most net short of the last 52 weeks, 100 at its most net long. It says where positioning is, not what price does next.

Commercials (producers, hedgers) the group classic COT analysis calls "smart money"

63 net +102,929 (+25.8% of OI)

Mid-range.

Speculators (funds, managed money) trend-following money with no commercial business in it

40 net −92,816 (−23.2% of OI)

Mid-range.

Small traders (non-reportable) the group classic analysis calls "dumb money"

22 net −10,113 (−2.5% of OI)

In the bottom quarter of its range.

Who holds what

Trader category	Long	Short	Net	Week change (long)
Non-commercial (speculators)	90,469	183,285	−92,816	−1,118
Commercial (producers, hedgers)	262,292	159,363	+102,929	+4,547
Non-reportable (small traders)	30,841	40,954	−10,113	–
Non-commercial spreading	16,042 on both sides		0	–

Spreading is a speculator holding an equal long and short in different months, so it nets to zero and is listed apart. The three net figures should sum to zero, because a futures market cannot be net long or net short overall, only differently distributed between the people in it. In the Commission's published figures they occasionally miss by a contract or two: for the week shown the three nets sum to 0. That is rounding in the source, not an error on this page, and we leave the CFTC's numbers as published rather than adjusting one to make the column balance.

The last two years

Speculative net position in Canadian dollar, Oct 2024 to Oct 2026. Above the line is net long, below it net short.

Week	Spec net	Change	Long share	Open interest
13 Oct 2026	−92,816	−2,809	33.0%	399,645
6 Oct 2026	−90,008	−9,777	33.5%	394,570
29 Sep 2026	−80,231	−25,577	33.9%	366,471
22 Sep 2026	−54,654	−15,781	37.9%	332,021
15 Sep 2026	−38,873	+31,274	39.6%	374,822
8 Sep 2026	−70,146	+37,998	30.5%	351,118
1 Sep 2026	−108,144	+13,357	20.2%	359,976
25 Aug 2026	−121,501	+37,205	19.0%	356,063
18 Aug 2026	−158,706	+14,517	11.2%	383,684
11 Aug 2026	−173,224	+5,101	6.6%	388,450
4 Aug 2026	−178,324	−2,275	6.8%	389,765
28 Jul 2026	−176,049	−1,659	10.2%	395,665
21 Jul 2026	−174,390	+1,325	11.8%	388,717
14 Jul 2026	−175,715	−2,610	12.6%	391,380
7 Jul 2026	−173,105	−20,951	13.2%	384,498
30 Jun 2026	−152,155	−4,691	16.4%	369,044

Across the 104 weeks held, the speculative net ranged from -183,522 to 33,915, averaging -102,852. This week's -92,816 sits at the 59th percentile of that range. Two years is a short window, and a position that looks far from its recent average can stay there for months. It describes where positioning has been, not where price goes.

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What this report is, and what it is not

The CFTC requires anyone holding more than a set number of contracts in a US futures market to report their position. Every Friday afternoon the Commission publishes the totals as they stood at Tuesday's close, split by the kind of trader holding them. The gap between Tuesday and Friday is deliberate and cannot be shortened: the figures are always three days old when you first see them.

Non-commercial traders have no commercial use for the underlying. Commercial traders do: a miner selling forward, an airline hedging fuel, a mill buying wheat. Non-reportable is everybody below the reporting threshold. The categories describe why someone is registered, not how clever they are, and the common framing of commercials as "smart money" does not follow from the data: a producer hedging output sells into a rising market because that is their business, not because they predict a fall.

Nothing on this page is a signal. Positioning shows how crowded a trade was on a particular Tuesday. It does not say when a crowd disperses, and crowded positions have stayed crowded for many months at a time in most of these markets.

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Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders, legacy futures-only report, contract market code 090741. Net positions, long share and the two-year rank are our arithmetic on the Commission's published figures; every input is in the tables above. Educational only, not financial advice.