Positioning
Oct 24, 2026 5 min read
A Rules-Based COT Trading Strategy: Positioning, Price and Risk
A COT report trading strategy fails when positioning is asked to do what it cannot: time entries. This one gives it the job it does well, setting the bias and the conviction, and hands timing to price structure and sizing to a fixed risk rule. The result is five written rules: the positioning condition, the price trigger, the entry, the stop, and the exit, with a worked euro trade and the numbers a backtest of it should report.
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