Purpose — research readout of CFTC Traders in Financial Futures (TFF) Leveraged Funds net positioning on equity-index futures, with a Yahoo cash-index price overlay. Not a composite input, not a trade ticket.Speculative — TFF Leveraged Funds net = longs − shorts (open proxy for speculative / CTA-like books; not 1:1 Legacy COT Non-Commercials). Gross legs = long and short contract counts.Contracts — ES (primary), plus NQ / YM / RTY when the CFTC archive name matches cleanly (micro / consolidated rows excluded). Soft-fail whole-payload if ES is empty.As-of / publish lag — CFTC reports positions as-of Tuesday and publishes Friday. Series are stamped on the as-of report date (not the Friday publish date), so the chrome date lags the calendar by a few days after each release.CTA-style US equities — the same ES Leveraged Funds net, scaled to an approximate $bn book (not Goldman CTA, not a multi-contract CTA). Sits on this page; the old route remains a bookmark.FINRA margin — official monthly debit balances in customers' securities margin accounts (Rule 4521(d)) and their 15-month rate of change. The 60% greed line is a Kizemchuk heuristic, registered at weight 0 pending IC. Not FINRA Reg SHO short volume.Attribution — CFTC public TFF archive + Yahoo Finance. GEX / short-gamma regime is a sibling panel on this page (CBOE delayed JSON primary + yfinance fallback — not SpotGamma). FINRA margin statistics are the official monthly Excel/HTML series.Research / read-only. Open data only.
Always-on positioning research: CFTC Commitment of Traders (TFF) speculative positioning for ES and related equity-index futures, overlaid on cash-index price; a thin dealer GEX / short-gamma regime pulse; the CTA-style US equities $bn proxy (ES Lev Funds — not Goldman CTA); and FINRA margin-debit 15-month RoC. Research only — not a forecast or composite weight.
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FINRA margin debit — 15-month RoC
Monthly FINRA Rule 4521(d) debit balances in customers' securities margin accounts. The 15-month rate of change is a leverage / speculation proxy. A drop back below 60% is the (unvalidated) top-cluster heuristic. Not FINRA Reg SHO short volume.