These charts bring together four studies available separately and one new study.

Nearest Futures - Each contract is plotted beginning one trading day before the previous contract expires until its own expiration. There is no shifting of the contracts.

Single-Month Seasonal - A seasonal is made from the last 15 years of contracts of the same month as the current front month using a simple arithmetic average. The seasonal (black line) as well as an envelope (gray lines) one standard deviation wide are plotted.

Commitment of Traders - This plot shows the open interest of each category of the Commitment of Traders data as a percentage of the total open interest.

• commercial net long - red line
  
• non-commercial net long - blue line
  
• small trader net long - black line

Open Contracts - This plot shows the next years' worth of open contracts.

Nearby Spread - This is a plot of the spread: long front month/short the next further out month. When the front month expires both legs get rolled over to their next further out month.

1. Pick a commodity.

2. Select the chart type. The jpegs are faster; the applets are interactive (zooming in is possible and there are data popups).

3. Press "Get Chart". There's a lot of data to download, so be patient.

This is a limited set of commodities available to nonsubscribers. Subscribers can access data for over 40 commodities.