Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
CFTC COT WTI crude oil (NYMEX) open interest: 1,841,811 contracts (2026-09-22) -5.8%
What the source reported
Source-reportedCFTC COT WTI crude oil (NYMEX) open interest: 1,841,811 contracts for 2026-09-22. Previous (2026-09-15): 1,955,764 contracts, change -5.8%. Geography: United States. Non-commercial long 360810, short 219704, spreading 557266 (weekly change: long -10392, short -15593). Commercial long 847389, short 1017278 (weekly change: long -47814, short -42783). Market as named by CFTC: WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE. Positions as of Tuesday 2026-09-22 (CFTC Legacy futures-only report).
- Publication
- CFTC Commitments of Traders - Legacy Futures Only (Socrata API) · Government/Regulator
- Published
- 22nd September 2026
- Original report
- cftc.gov
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- United States
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 28th September 2026 · 20:20
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
Initial Significance Moderate (22.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Likely Event Severity (3.0/30 points). Initial Confidence Moderate (51.5/100, data sufficiency: Partial). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Likely Event Severity