Trading Education
How to read cocoa COT: commercial shorts are not a standalone sell signal
Separate commercial hedging, managed-money longs and short covering before interpreting a weekly cocoa COT report. The category does not prove the motive.
The cocoa research desk
Cocoa research & articles
Dated market updates, source-linked analysis and practical cocoa trading guides.
Trading Education
Cocoa inventories vs certified stocks: why the figures can diverge
Warehouse totals and certified cocoa measure different things. Here is how to compare them without mistaking stored beans for immediately deliverable supply.
Publication schedule & market data guides
Morning Brief: weekdays from 7am UK · Recap: after the New York close · COT: when new official data arrives · Weekly Review: paired with COT · Week Ahead: Sunday from 4pm. Publication depends on sufficient sourced evidence.
Editorial research and clearly labelled automated daily briefings appear here. Original editions are preserved, with subsequent corrections recorded as dated follow-ups.