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 2026-07-07. 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: 1,905,761 | |||||||
| 317,773 | 242,024 | 584,653 | 924,510 | 1,029,132 | 1,826,936 | 1,855,809 | 78,825 | 49,952 |
| Changes | (Change In Open Interest: -8,682 ) | |||||||
| -22,925 | +11,857 | -9,988 | +22,086 | -13,440 | -10,827 | -11,571 | +2,145 | +2,889 |
| Percent of Open Interest for Each Category of Traders | ||||||||
| 16.7% | 12.7% | 30.7% | 48.5% | 54.0% | 95.9% | 97.4% | 4.1% | 2.6% |
| Number of Traders in Each Category | (Total Traders: 298) | |||||||
| 110 | 74 | 116 | 97 | 97 | 267 | 232 | ||