Cot

{
  "commercials": {
    "long": 480000,
    "net": 80000,
    "net_pct_oi": 9.8,
    "note": "commercials = hedgers/producers; typically the opposite side of large specs",
    "short": 400000
  },
  "cot_signal": "Crowded Short (contrarian bullish)",
  "history_weeks": 160,
  "interpretation": "Large speculators are net short near a 3-year extreme (0.9th pct) — a crowded short that often precedes a squeeze/bounce.",
  "large_specs": {
    "long": 120000,
    "net": -72447,
    "net_pct_oi": -8.8,
    "net_percentile_3y": 0.9,
    "net_wow_change": -8100,
    "short": 192447
  },
  "market": "EURO FX - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE",
  "oi_wow_change": 12000,
  "open_interest": 819806,
  "query": "euro",
  "report_date": "2026-07-28",
  "small_traders": {
    "net": -7553,
    "net_pct_oi": -0.9
  },
  "source": "CFTC Commitments of Traders (publicreporting.cftc.gov)"
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://cot.lonestaroracle.xyz/cot?market=gold'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://cot.lonestaroracle.xyz/cot?market=gold' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcot.lonestaroracle.xyz%2Fcot
const res = await pay("https://cot.lonestaroracle.xyz/cot?market=gold");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://cot.lonestaroracle.xyz/cot?market=gold")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)