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Crude Got Paid (CoT Update 05/15/2026)
“The big money is not in the buying and the selling, but in the waiting.” - Charlie Munger
Annual subscribers can now access the new CoT Dashboard inside the TRQ Portal - the full positioning board behind these weekly reports, updated w...
Cocoa Went Vertical | CoT Update: 05/08/2026
“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?” — John Maynard Keynes
Last week I led the page with cocoa: physical-market commercials going heavier long, hedge funds (Managed Money: funds and CTAs) at the most aggressive...
The Distribution Went Mainstream (CoT update)
Last week I led with one line: real money was selling the Russell into a +11.5% four-week rally. Distribution, not rotation.
This week the distribution went broader.
Asset Managers — the institutional real-money group, pension funds and s...
This Nasdaq Strategy Has A 75% Win Rate (Until I Found the December Bug)
One pivot pattern. Drawdown 32% → 25% with one calendar filter. Here's exactly what changed.
In 700 BC the Roman calendar had a bug: roughly sixty winter days had no names at all.
The Small-Cap Tell (CoT update)
“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.”— Sir John Templeton
source: templeton.org
Last week, Asset Managers were long bonds and equities at the same time. An all-clear bet on e...
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