Below is the Commitments of Traders (COT) report for CRUDE OIL, LIGHT SWEET - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (COT legacy report, futures only) with COT charts. This COT report for CRUDE OIL, LIGHT SWEET is as of 2020-11-17. COT reports are released each Friday (except for U.S. holidays) by the CFTC. Each COT report release includes data from the previous Tuesday.
| Non-Commercial | Commercial | Total | Non-Reportable | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long | Short | Spreads | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | Short |
| (CONTRACTS OF 1,000 BARRELS) | Open Interest: 2,083,804 | |||||||
| 638,245 | 157,434 | 700,087 | 660,992 | 1,165,028 | 1,999,324 | 2,022,549 | 84,480 | 61,255 |
| Changes | (Change In Open Interest: +30,354 ) | |||||||
| +4,502 | -12,771 | +19,198 | +10,948 | +29,491 | +34,648 | +35,918 | -4,294 | -5,564 |
| Percent of Open Interest for Each Category of Traders | ||||||||
| 30.6% | 7.6% | 33.6% | 31.7% | 55.9% | 95.9% | 97.1% | 4.1% | 2.9% |
| Number of Traders in Each Category | (Total Traders: 325) | |||||||
| 121 | 78 | 138 | 99 | 103 | 290 | 261 | ||
