August 21, 2009
Effective with this week’s Commitments of Traders report, the Commission staff has reclassified certain positions in the copper futures and options markets from the Noncommercial category to the Commercial category. Commission staff periodically evaluate these classifications and will change a classification in light of new or additional information.

July 6, 2009
The ICE Futures U.S. cocoa commitment reports for June 23, 2009 have been revised (futures-only and combined futures and options). One or more reportable accounts were not in the database when the reports were originally run. These positions are included in the revised reports in the appropriate category or categories.

January 2, 2009
December 22, 2008 reports for NYME Henry Hub Gas Swap futures (CFTC ID 03565B), NYME Henry Hub Penultimate Gas Swap futures (CFTC ID 03565C), and NYME European Style Natural Gas options (CFTC ID 02365U) are now available.

December 29, 2008
Due to a clearing member reporting problem on December 22, 2008 in NYME Henry Hub Gas Swap futures (CFTC ID 03565B), NYME Henry Hub Penultimate Gas Swap futures (CFTC ID 03565C), and NYME European Style Natural Gas options (CFTC ID 02365U), these contracts will not be published December 29, 2008. We expect to publish with corrected open interest figures on or before January 2, 2009.

Holiday Release Schedule
As noted on the Commitment of Traders (COT) Report Release Schedule, Federal holidays delay the release by one day. As a result, the next two releases will be on Monday, December 29, and Monday, January 5 at 3:30 p.m. In addition, the COT report released on December 29 will be for the prior Monday’s open interest positions instead of the usual Tuesday’s.

Week of November 14, 2008: Revised Data
Due to a position reporting error in ICE Futures U.S. coffee option positions, the Futures-and-Options Combined Report and the CIT Report for November 14, 2008 contained incorrect information. Commission staff has corrected the error and has revised the reports for this date to reflect this change.

July 25, 2008: Revised Historical Data
As indicated in last Friday’s Special Announcement (July 18, 2008), the Commission has now revised Commitments reports for markets affected by reclassified positions, for reports as of July 3, 2007, to date. Today we are releasing the revised data, so that the historical Compressed Reports (in text and EXCEL formats) found on our website now reflect the improved data. We continue to work on revising each individual week’s historical report in viewable (html) format. As a result, we have removed the NYMEX weekly reports (for July 3, 2007, through July 8, 2008) in html format; and, after we have made the adjustments to the html reports, we will repost those individual reports.

July 18, 2008
Effective with this week’s Commitments of Traders (COT) report, the Commission staff has reclassified certain positions in the energy futures and options markets from the Commercial category to the Noncommercial category. As described in the Backgrounder for the COT report, reportable traders provide information to the Commission, on a market-by-market basis, on whether they use a market for commercial purposes, i.e., use a market for hedging or risk-management. This information is normally the basis used for determining a trader's classification as a commercial trader in the COT report. However, Commission staff periodically evaluate these classifications and will change a classification in light of new or additional information. In this instance, information provided as part of a Commission Special Call to select market participants improved the Commission’s knowledge of certain business operations, resulting in the reclassification of certain positions because commercial hedging or risk management activities did not constitute a significant part of the overall trading activity.

Last Updated: October 20, 2009