Schad Commodity Weekly Report: An Insider’s View of the Next Big Market Move · December 5th, 2025

by | Dec 5, 2025 | Agricultural Commodity Futures, Alternative Investment, Bitcoin Crypto Currency Futures, Commodity Futures Trading, Global Markets, Hard-Asset Investments

Once each week, usually on Friday evenings, we’ll update our personal weekly commodity trading charts and review them for changes in “net long” or, “net short” holdings between the big commercial commodity traders, large speculators, and the usually uninformed public. This is our professional analysis of “the bigger picture” and current dynamics for each market which provide a spyglass view of the BIG commercial traders and what they are currently doing to influence the crypto and futures markets.

As you may already know, insider trading with stocks on Wall Street is very illegal. However, in the commodity & crypto trading industry, large/commercial traders MUST report their positions EACH WEEK to the CFTC regulatory body, hence, we monitor them on a weekly basis. Although the crypto & futures markets themselves will ultimately provide the most accurate illustration of trend, these (weekly) charts we’ve identified, serve to forewarn us of the next possible bigger move.

Here are the commodity & crypto markets which illustrate their forthcoming changing picture…the ones to be watching more closely to consider taking a position in next week:

ATTENTION: Commitments of Traders Report was *not* taken into consideration for this week’s evaluation, however, the COT is now being published by the CFTC. The update schedule is posted on their web site…but it’s going to take them 2 months to catch up.

Here is the official announcement with specific reporting data: https://www.cftc.gov/MarketReports/CommitmentsofTraders/ReleaseSchedule/index.htm/.

Special (“Official”) Announcement

November 18, 2025: The processing and publication of Commitments of Traders data were interrupted from October 1 – November 12 due to a lapse in federal appropriations. Following a return to normal operations, the CFTC will resume publication of the Commitments of Traders reports in chronological order. The following schedule depicts the intended COT Report publication dates for the data associated with the original publication date.

UP Trending Futures Markets: Gold, Natural Gas NY, and Silver

DOWN Trending Futures Markets: Cocoa, and Cotton #2

*expect extension of current trend

ALL COMMENTARY IS CONSIDERED OPINION & VIEWS FROM THE AUTHOR AND NOT A SOLICITATION OF ANY SECURITIES. THE RISK OF LOSS IN TRADING COMMODITY INTERESTS CAN BE SUBSTANTIAL. YOU SHOULD THEREFORE CONSIDER WHETHER SUCH TRADING IS SUITABLE FOR YOU IN LIGHT OF YOUR FINANCIAL CONDITION.