Cot Positioning

{
  "attribution": "Attribute to The Vault Report with a link to https://thevaultreport.com",
  "endpoint": "cot/positioning",
  "filters": {
    "commodity": "gold"
  },
  "generated_at": "2026-04-18T14:00:00Z",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "next_page": 2,
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 25,
  "related": [],
  "returned": 1,
  "rows": [
    {
      "commodity": "GOLD",
      "contract_code": "088691",
      "managed_money_long": 1250,
      "managed_money_net": 1250,
      "managed_money_short": 1250,
      "open_interest": 418200,
      "producer_merchant_long": 1250,
      "producer_merchant_short": 1250,
      "report_date": "2026-04-17",
      "swap_long": 1250,
      "swap_short": 1250
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": 1,
  "source": "The Vault Report",
  "source_url": "https://thevaultreport.com",
  "total_matches": 1482
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/cot/positioning?commodity=gold&from=2026-01-01&page=1&to=2026-04-30'

# 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://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/cot/positioning?commodity=gold&from=2026-01-01&page=1&to=2026-04-30' \
  | 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 $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
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 $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthevaultreport.com%2Fapi%2Fx402%2Fcot%2Fpositioning
const res = await pay("https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/cot/positioning?commodity=gold&from=2026-01-01&page=1&to=2026-04-30");
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 $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://thevaultreport.com/api/x402/cot/positioning?commodity=gold&from=2026-01-01&page=1&to=2026-04-30")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)