We make up a weekly medium-term trade list based on CFTC reports and technical analysis. The overview provides a description of the technical condition of the market on the most popular financial instruments, as well as information on the large speculators’ actions according to the last COT reports and the previous period. If you want to use CFTC reports in your trading practice, you should understand that for an objective assessment of the situation it’s not enough to have the data of the last report. The dynamic is more important, in other words, comparing the statistics of large speculators’ actions in the current period with the previous one, so we mention both values. Key topics Trade list for the current week E-Mini S&P500 (ESH22) Dollar Index (DXY) Euro (EURUSD) Swiss Franc (USDCHF) British Pound (GBPUSD) Japanese Yen (USDJPY) WTI Crude Oil (CLJ22) Canadian Dollar (USDCAD) Gold (XAUUSD) Silver(XAGUSD) Australian Dollar (AUDUSD) New Zealand Dollar (NZDUSD) Russian Rouble (USDRUB) Conclusions E-Mini S&P500 (ESH22) The market remains in the bearish trend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback selling opportunity was formed. Short positions will remain relevant until the market is below the nearest resistance level on the Daily timeframe, the highs of February 15 – 17. COT indicator increases. CFTC reports indicate that large speculators are buying and the professionals’ opinion doesn’t correspond to the market technical picture and it makes sense to reduce the position size when an entry point appears in the trend direction. E-Mini S&P500 (ESH22). Technical analysis and COT net position indicator Dollar Index (DXY) The market remains in the uptrend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback buying opportunity was formed. Long positions will remain relevant until the market is above the nearest support level on the Daily timeframe, the lows of February 15 – 18. COT indicator reversed. CFTC reports indicate that large speculators are buying the dollar, hedgers are selling and the professionals’ opinion corresponds to the Daily trend direction. Dollar Index (DXY). Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Euro (EURUSD) EURUSD currency paur remains in the bearish trend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback selling opportunity was formed. Short positions (EURUSD) will remain relevant until the market is below the nearest resistance level on the Daily timeframe, the highs of February 15 – 18. COT indicator increases. Large speculators are buying Euro and the professionals’ opinion doesn’t correspond to the market technical picture and it makes sense to reduce the position size when an entry point appears in the trend direction. EURUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Swiss Franc (USDCHF) The support level was broken on the Daily timeframe on Thursday, the trend is bearish now and the correction wave develops. A pullback selling opportunity will appear after the correction completion on the Daily timeframe. Short positions (USDCHF) will remain relevant until the market is below the nearest resistance level on the Daily timeframe, the highs of February 10 – 17. COT indicator decreased but didn’t reverse. Large speculators are buying franc and the professionals’ opinion corresponds to the market technical picture. CHFUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. British Pound (GBPUSD) GBPUSD currency pair remains in the downtrend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback selling opportunity was formed. Short positions (GBPUSD) will remain relevant until the market is below the nearest resistance level on the Daily timeframe, the highs of February 10 – 14. COT indicator increases. CFTC reports indicate that large speculators are buying Pound and the professionals’ opinion doesn’t correspond to the Daily trend direction and it makes sense to reduce the position size when an entry point appears in the trend direction. GBPUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Japanese Yen (USDJPY) The support level was broken on the Daily timeframe on Thursday, the trend is bearish now and the correction wave develops. A pullback selling opportunity will appear after the correction completion on the Daily timeframe. Short positions (USDJPY) will remain relevant until the market is below the nearest resistance level on the Daily timeframe, the highs of February 14 – 17. COT indicator reversed. Large speculators are selling Yen and the professionals’ opinion doesn’t correspond to the Daily trend direction and it makes sense to reduce the position size when an entry point appears in the trend direction. JPYUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. WTI Crude Oil (CLJ22) The market remains in the uptrend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback buying opportunity was formed. Long positions will remain relevant until the market is above the nearest support level on the Daily timeframe, the lows of February 15 – 18. COT net position indicator decreases. Large speculators are selling oil. Professionals’ opinion doesn’t correspond to the Daily trend direction and it makes sense to reduce the position size when an entry point appears in the trend direction. WTI Crude Oil (CLJ22). Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Canadian Dollar (USDCAD) The market remains in the bullish trend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback buying opportunity was formed. Long positions (USDCAD) will remain relevant until the market is above the nearest support level on the Daily timeframe, the lows of February 15 – 18. COT indicator reversed. CFTC reports indicate that large speculators are selling the Canadian dollar and hedgers are buying and the professionals’ opinion corresponds to the market technical picture. CADUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Gold (XAUUSD) The market remains in the bullish trend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback buying opportunity was formed. Long positions will remain relevant until the market is above the nearest support level on the Daily timeframe, the lows of February 15 – 17. COT indicator reversed. Large speculators are buying gold and the professionals’ opinion corresponds to the market technical picture. Gold (GCJ22). Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Silver (XAGUSD) The market remains in the bullish trend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback buying opportunity was formed. Long positions will remain relevant until the market is above the nearest support level on the Daily timeframe, the lows of February 15 – 17. COT indicator reversed. At the same time, CFTC reports indicate that large speculators are buying and hedgers are selling and the professionals’ opinion corresponds to the market technical picture. Silver (SIH22). Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Australian Dollar (AUDUSD) AUDUSD currency pair remains in the bullish trend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback buying opportunity was formed. Long positions (AUDUSD) will remain relevant until the market is above the nearest support level on the Daily timeframe, the lows of February 11 – 16. COT net position indicator decreases. Large speculators are selling and hedgers are buying. Professionals’ opinion doesn’t correspond to the Daily trend direction and it makes sense to reduce the position size when an entry point appears in the trend direction. AUDUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. New Zealand Dollar (NZDUSD) NZDUSD currency pair remains in the bearish trend and the correction wave develops. A pullback selling opportunity will appear after the correction completion on the Daily timeframe. Short positions (NZDUSD) will remain relevant until the market is below the nearest resistance level on the Daily timeframe, the highs of February 8 – 11. COT indicator increases. CFTC reports indicate that large speculators are buying and the professionals’ opinion doesn’t correspond to the market technical picture and it makes sense to reduce the position size when an entry point appears in the trend direction. NZDUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Russian Rouble (USDRUB) USDRUB currency pair remains in the downtrend. The correction came to an end last week and the pullback selling opportunity was formed. Short positions (USDRUB) will remain relevant until the market is below the nearest resistance level on the Daily timeframe, the highs of February 11 – 15. COT indicator increases. Large speculators are buying rouble and the professionals’ opinion corresponds to the Daily trend direction. RUBUSD. Technical analysis and COT net position indicator. Conclusions In terms of medium-term trading, financial instruments with the correction close to completion on the Daily timeframe and with potentially the most promising risk-reward ratio are EURUSD, GBPUSD, AUDUSD, USDCAD, WTI Crude Oil, E-Mini S&P500 and silver. In the near future, USDCHF and USDJPY can become noteworthy depending on the market correction depth. Other financial instruments in the trade list may be also interesting, but in these markets pullback signals on the Daily timeframe are likely to occur no earlier than a week. More information on the topic: The role of support and resistance levels in the trading plan Trading tactics. Breakout trading and pullback trading How to use CFTC reports in trading. General concepts How to use CFTC reports in trading. The logic of large speculators Good luck in trading!