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 2026-08-18. 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: 1,888,960 | |||||||
| 320,159 | 198,069 | 598,872 | 894,821 | 1,047,908 | 1,813,852 | 1,844,849 | 75,108 | 44,111 |
| Changes | (Change In Open Interest: -3,469 ) | |||||||
| +5,313 | -17,581 | -6,018 | -2,523 | +20,927 | -3,228 | -2,672 | -241 | -797 |
| Percent of Open Interest for Each Category of Traders | ||||||||
| 16.9% | 10.5% | 31.7% | 47.4% | 55.5% | 96.0% | 97.7% | 4.0% | 2.3% |
| Number of Traders in Each Category | (Total Traders: 283) | |||||||
| 109 | 59 | 111 | 90 | 93 | 253 | 219 | ||