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Commitments of Traders

CME Bitcoin and Ether futures positioning from the weekly CFTC report. No es asesoramiento financiero.

Bitcoin (CME)

Report dateAug 11, 2026

Leveraged funds — long4,997

Leveraged funds — short12,049

Asset managers — long4,741

Asset managers — short2,507

Ether (CME)

Report dateAug 11, 2026

Leveraged funds — long3,558

Leveraged funds — short7,556

Asset managers — long1,279

Asset managers — short4,398

Fuente: CFTC. Las cifras son informativas y no son asesoramiento financiero.

Reading CME futures positioning

The CFTC’s weekly Commitments of Traders report shows how different trader types are positioned in CME’s regulated Bitcoin and Ether futures — the closest thing crypto has to an institutional-sentiment gauge. Leveraged funds (fast-money speculators) and asset managers (longer-horizon institutions) matter most.

What to watch

Extremes in leveraged-fund positioning — very long or very short relative to history — have often preceded reversals, since a one-sided market has more traders who could be forced to unwind.
A single week’s report is a data point, not a forecast.
This covers CME’s regulated futures only — it misses offshore derivatives exchanges, where much crypto futures volume actually trades.

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