cot-contrarian-detector SKILL.md skillA
cot-contrarian-detector from tradermonty/claude-trading-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/cot-contrarian-detector@git:20261107.6272581Pins git:20261107.6272581 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tradermonty/claude-trading-skills
- Path
skills/cot-contrarian-detector/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261107.6272581, committed Nov 7, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 13, 2026
- Size
- 8,653 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,682
- License
- MIT
Detect crowded speculative positioning in CFTC futures markets (COT report analysis) to find contrarian setups using Jason Shapiro's methodology. Screens large-speculator ("non-commercial") net positioning across 65 futures markets (indices, rates, FX, metals, energy, crypto) via the FMP Commitment of Traders API, computes a 3-year and 26-week COT Index per market, and classifies extremes as CROWDED_LONG / CROWDED_SHORT. Use when the user asks about COT report analysis, crowded positioning…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# COT Contrarian Detector ## Overview Implements step 1 of Jason Shapiro's COT (Commitment of Traders) contrarian process: detect when large speculators are crowded into one side of a futures market. Crowded positioning is a *precondition* for a contrarian trade, not a trade signal — a market only becomes tradable once crowding is confirmed by a news failure and price-action reversal (steps 2-3), which this skill guides the user through manually. **Core thesis (Shapiro):** Large speculators (hedge funds, CTAs, momentum traders) tend to be maximally positioned at trend exhaustion, not trend inception. When they are already crowded onto one side, the next big move is statistically more likely to run them over than to reward them further. Fade the *speculators*, not the commercials (commercials hedge for structural reasons and are not a crowd-psychology signal). ## When to Use This Skill **English:** - "What markets are the speculators crowded into right now?" - "Run a COT report analysis" / "Show me COT positioning extremes" - "Is anyone 'trapped' in gold / the dollar / bonds right now?" - User wants to find contrarian futures setups …
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How to install
mdr add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/cot-contrarian-detector@sha256:32e666f68edef7acThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261107.6272581, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 13, 2026 and Nov 7, 2026, about one every 59 days.
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| git:20261107.6272581 latest | 2026-11-07 | 6272581 | 8,653 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.fac23be | 2026-10-12 | fac23be | 8,194 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260713.85aa374 | 2026-07-13 | 85aa374 | 7,976 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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- pass: No link to a raw IP address
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Source
tradermonty/claude-trading-skills · 3,682 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4vwhk2sxthu3j6oz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/cot-contrarian-detector GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/32e666f68edef7aca328e26cf9b337eb770e4a3f5ed24d65b0914efaf30388cb
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