Quantifies the opening of new long and short futures positions by analyzing trend alignment between 7-day moving averages of price and open interest (OI) percentage changes. See this article for insights into this metric and its use cases.

This is the Point-in-Time (PiT) variant of Position Openings. PiT metrics are strictly append-only and their history is immutable. The historic data does not necessarily reflect the best current knowledge, but the information at the time when a data point was first computed. PiT metrics are ideal candidates for applications in model backtesting and related quantitative purposes. Read our article on PiT metrics for more information.