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 2026-08-11. 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: 1,892,429 | |||||||
| 314,846 | 215,650 | 604,890 | 897,344 | 1,026,981 | 1,817,080 | 1,847,521 | 75,349 | 44,908 |
| Changes | (Change In Open Interest: +5,613 ) | |||||||
| +6,005 | +19,252 | -5,249 | +9,819 | -14,319 | +10,575 | -316 | -4,962 | +5,929 |
| Percent of Open Interest for Each Category of Traders | ||||||||
| 16.6% | 11.4% | 32.0% | 47.4% | 54.3% | 96.0% | 97.6% | 4.0% | 2.4% |
| Number of Traders in Each Category | (Total Traders: 296) | |||||||
| 111 | 70 | 120 | 93 | 95 | 268 | 229 | ||