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 2026-07-28. 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: 1,859,795 | |||||||
| 314,992 | 194,884 | 595,417 | 871,589 | 1,030,411 | 1,781,998 | 1,820,712 | 77,797 | 39,083 |
| Changes | (Change In Open Interest: -4,692 ) | |||||||
| +4,810 | -33,609 | +14,483 | -24,705 | +25,516 | -5,412 | +6,390 | +720 | -11,082 |
| Percent of Open Interest for Each Category of Traders | ||||||||
| 16.9% | 10.5% | 32.0% | 46.9% | 55.4% | 95.8% | 97.9% | 4.2% | 2.1% |
| Number of Traders in Each Category | (Total Traders: 292) | |||||||
| 116 | 68 | 112 | 88 | 92 | 257 | 222 | ||