---
title: "Traders in Financial Futures (TFF)"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/cot/financial"
tags: ["Hedge Fund Intelligence"]
---

# Traders in Financial Futures (TFF)

`GET /api/v1/cot/financial`

Financial futures positioning: Asset Managers (pension/mutual funds), Dealer/Intermediary (banks), Leveraged Funds (hedge funds), Other. Covers Treasury bonds, S&P 500, VIX, currencies, SOFR. Set `combined=true` for Futures + Options report (default Futures-Only).

## Query parameters

- `market` string — Filter by market name (e.g. S&P 500, 10-YEAR, VIX, EURO FX)
- `combined` boolean — True = Combined (Futures + Options); False (default) = Futures-Only.
- `limit` integer — Max records (raise with a market filter to pull full history)
- `start_date` string — Inclusive report-date lower bound, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
- `end_date` string — Inclusive report-date upper bound, ISO YYYY-MM-DD.

## Response `200`

Financial futures positions by Asset Manager, Dealer, Leveraged Fund, and Other trader category.

- EnvelopeCotDisaggregatedData
  - `data` CotDisaggregatedData, required
    - `report_type` string, required — Report type.
    - `combined` boolean, required — True if rows are Combined (Futures + Options); False if Futures-Only.
    - `count` integer, required — Number of items in this result set.
    - `records` object[], required — Array of normalized COT record rows.
  - `meta` SugraMeta, required — Metadata attached to every /api/v1/* response envelope.
    - `endpoint` string, required — Requested endpoint path.
    - `data_time` string, required — ISO 8601 UTC timestamp of the source data, not of the request.
    - `response_time` string, required — ISO 8601 UTC timestamp when this response was produced.
    - `provider` string, required — API name and version.
    - `source` string, nullable — Identifier of the primary upstream source used for this response.
    - `attribution` string, nullable — Human-readable attribution mandated by an upstream source (e.g. a securities regulator or self-regulatory organization). Present only on responses whose source requires the owner and source to be clearly identified. Do not remove or alter it when using the response.
    - `fallback_used` boolean, nullable — True when the primary source failed and a fallback produced the data.
    - `fallback_chain` string[], nullable — Ordered list of sources attempted, in the order they were tried.
    - `cached` boolean, nullable — True when this response was served from the internal cache.
    - `stale` boolean, nullable — True when the cached response was returned after the upstream rate-limited or errored. Clients can use this to detect degraded data.

## Other responses

- `401` — Missing or invalid `x-api-key` header.
- `422` — Validation Error
- `429` — Daily rate limit exceeded. Check `X-RateLimit-Reset` for the next window.
- `503` — Upstream source is temporarily unavailable. Retry after a short delay.

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