Master COT Data in MINUTES Not Hours with This Simple Excel Hack

Are you a forex or currency trader struggling to make sense of the daunting COT (Commitment of Traders) reports from the CFTC website? You're not alone! Reading these reports can be overwhelming, especially when trying to compare currency pairs like the Canadian Dollar against the US Dollar, often leading to lost information unless you manually jot everything down.

In this video, we tackle this challenge head-on by showing you a FREE and easy method to analyze COT data using Excel's Power Query, so you never have to read the raw reports again! Learn how to download weekly COT reports, refresh your data with a single click, and instantly gain a clear bias on what the market's major participants (commercial, speculators, and small traders) are doing based on their gross long and short positions. We'll walk you through setting up a powerful, automated system using investmacro.com data, providing you with up to 10 years of historical COT records for every instrument. This is a raw documentation of actual progress and regressions for serious forex traders, even those with a 9-to-5 job.

Chapters:

0:00:00 Introduction: The COT Report Struggle for Forex Traders
0:01:00 The Solution: Automating COT Analysis with Excel
0:01:40 Why I Use InvestMacro.com (and you should too!)
0:02:00 Downloading & Organizing COT Data Files
0:03:00 Accessing 10 Years of Historical COT Data
0:03:40 Setting Up Power Query in Excel for Automation
0:05:00 Transforming Data: Splitting Columns by Delimiter
0:06:20 Organizing & Filtering Your COT Data
0:07:20 Adding Custom Column for Data Expansion
0:08:25 Focusing on Gross Longs & Shorts for Market Bias
0:09:50 Cleaning Up & Formatting Your Data for Clarity
0:11:00 Filtering for Currency Pairs Only
0:12:00 Extracting Net Positions from Gross Longs & Shorts
0:15:00 Calculating the 3-Month Moving Average
0:17:00 Normalizing Data for Trend Analysis
0:20:00 Visualizing COT Data on a Chart
0:25:00 Interpreting COT Data for Trading Decisions
0:28:00 How to Update with New Weekly COT Reports
0:31:00 Conclusion: Gaining a Clear Market Bias Instantly

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check out forex news: forexfactory.com
Currency strength meter (Bars): https://www.fxblue.com/market-data/currency-strength
Currency Strength Trend (Line graph): https://marketmilk.babypips.com/currency-strength

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Website to determine what to trade: marketmilk.babypips.com
Open an Exness account: https://one.exnesstrack.org/a/oa8635h24z

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Disclaimer:
Trading is risk and you may loss your investment. I am not a licensed financial advisor nor do I give directions on how to spend or invest your finance. Please do your due diligence to research and learn trading and anything involving finance before you go spend money on it.

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