Below is the Commitments of Traders (COT) report for WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (COT legacy report, futures only) with COT charts. This COT report for WTI-PHYSICAL is as of 2026-09-29. 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: 1,878,576 | |||||||
| 361,351 | 251,888 | 563,738 | 873,637 | 1,016,255 | 1,798,726 | 1,831,881 | 79,850 | 46,695 |
| Changes | (Change In Open Interest: +36,765 ) | |||||||
| +541 | +32,184 | +6,472 | +26,248 | -1,023 | +33,261 | +37,633 | +3,504 | -868 |
| Percent of Open Interest for Each Category of Traders | ||||||||
| 19.2% | 13.4% | 30.0% | 46.5% | 54.1% | 95.7% | 97.5% | 4.3% | 2.5% |
| Number of Traders in Each Category | (Total Traders: 304) | |||||||
| 130 | 65 | 115 | 93 | 94 | 274 | 227 | ||