BTC: CME

Bitcoin futures on CME and the regulated Coinbase nano contract, from the CFTC’s weekly Commitments of Traders reports: open interest in contracts, coins and dollars, and how leveraged funds are positioned.

CME and Regulated Futures

The CFTC publishes positions in US-regulated futures every Friday, as of the Tuesday before. These charts read those reports directly, so each point is a week and arrives a few days after its date.

Leveraged money is the category hedge funds and other leveraged traders report under; its net position has often been short while those funds run the basis trade against spot ETFs.

Daily venue data is in the futures dashboards; this board is the regulated, weekly view.

BTC: CME Bitcoin Weekly Open Interest — Report-Day Notional

Weekly open interest in standard 5 BTC CME Bitcoin futures, reported by the CFTC, valued in USD at the report date. Estimate the dollar exposure represented by outstanding standard CME Bitcoin futures. Higher values may reflect more contracts or a higher BTC price. The Monday coordinate labels the reporting week; valuation uses the actual report date, usually Tuesday, and the following UTC midnight quote. This is not exchange-reported notional, the futures settlement price, collateral, or a total including micro contracts and other venues. Reports and prices remain provisional and revisable; original release and historical price publication times are unknown. Missing report-day prices stay gaps.

BTC: CME Bitcoin Open Interest — CFTC Weekly

Weekly CFTC-reported open interest in CME Bitcoin futures, counting each outstanding five-BTC contract once. Track changes in total outstanding exposure in this one CME Bitcoin futures contract. Higher values mean more outstanding contracts, each counted once. This is one CME contract, futures only; it does not cover other exchanges, options exposure, perpetual funding, trading volume or liquidations. History starts with the report week plotted at 2018-04-09; missing reports stay gaps with no daily interpolation, and the current snapshot may include corrections.

BTC: CME Micro Bitcoin Open Interest — CFTC Weekly

Weekly CFTC-reported open interest in CME Micro Bitcoin futures, counting each outstanding 0.1 BTC contract once. Track changes in total outstanding exposure in this one CME Micro Bitcoin futures contract. Higher values mean more outstanding contracts, each counted once. This is one CME contract, futures only; it does not cover other exchanges, options exposure, perpetual funding, trading volume or liquidations. History starts with the report week plotted at 2021-05-03; missing reports stay gaps with no daily interpolation, and the current snapshot may include corrections.

BTC: Coinbase Nano Bitcoin Perpetual-Style Open Interest — BTC Equivalent

Weekly BTC-equivalent exposure in Coinbase Derivatives nano Bitcoin perpetual-style futures, a long-dated cash-settled contract. Read changes in this contract’s outstanding exposure on a BTC scale. This is contractual exposure, not BTC held or posted as collateral. It covers one venue; weekly reports remain revisable and do not measure hourly funding.

BTC: CME Bitcoin Leveraged Money Net Positions — CFTC Weekly

The weekly net CME Bitcoin futures position of the CFTC leveraged-money trader category: long minus short contracts, at five BTC per contract. See whether this reported trader category holds more long or more short contracts, and how that balance changes from week to week. Positive values mean more long than short contracts; negative values mean more short than long. Net is a difference, not an additional position count, and separately reported spreading positions enter neither side. Categories describe reported business type, not trade intent, and changes can reflect trader reclassification as well as positions. This is one CME contract, futures only, not all exchanges or options. History starts with the report week plotted at 2018-04-09; missing reports stay gaps, and the current snapshot may include corrections.

BTC: CME Bitcoin Leveraged Money Long Positions — CFTC Weekly

Weekly CME Bitcoin futures long positions of the CFTC leveraged-money trader category, in contracts of five BTC each. Follow how much long exposure this reported trader category holds in one CME Bitcoin futures contract. Higher values mean more long contracts held by the category, excluding its separately reported spreading positions. Categories describe reported business type, not trade intent, and changes can reflect trader reclassification as well as positions. This is one CME contract, futures only, not all exchanges, options, perpetual funding, trading volume or liquidations. History starts with the report week plotted at 2018-04-09; missing reports stay gaps with no daily interpolation, and the current snapshot may include corrections.

BTC: CME Bitcoin Leveraged Money Short Positions — CFTC Weekly

Weekly CME Bitcoin futures short positions of the CFTC leveraged-money trader category, in contracts of five BTC each. Follow how much short exposure this reported trader category holds in one CME Bitcoin futures contract. Higher values mean more short contracts held by the category, excluding its separately reported spreading positions. Categories describe reported business type, not trade intent, and changes can reflect trader reclassification as well as positions. This is one CME contract, futures only, not all exchanges, options, perpetual funding, trading volume or liquidations. History starts with the report week plotted at 2018-04-09; missing reports stay gaps with no daily interpolation, and the current snapshot may include corrections.

BTC: CME Micro Bitcoin Leveraged Money Net Positions — CFTC Weekly

The weekly net CME Micro Bitcoin futures position of the CFTC leveraged-money trader category: long minus short contracts, at 0.1 BTC per contract. See whether this reported trader category holds more long or more short contracts, and how that balance changes from week to week. Positive values mean more long than short contracts; negative values mean more short than long. Net is a difference, not an additional position count, and separately reported spreading positions enter neither side. Categories describe reported business type, not trade intent, and changes can reflect trader reclassification as well as positions. This is one CME contract, futures only, not all exchanges or options. History starts with the report week plotted at 2021-05-03; missing reports stay gaps, and the current snapshot may include corrections.