← Signals

Signal · Commodities & Input Costs

CFTC COT WTI crude oil (NYMEX) open interest: 1,900,179 contracts (2026-10-13) +0.6%

CFTC Commitments of Traders - Legacy Futures Only (Socrata API) Authoritative source Published 13th October 2026 United States

What the source reported

Source-reported

CFTC COT WTI crude oil (NYMEX) open interest: 1,900,179 contracts for 2026-10-13. Previous (2026-10-06): 1,889,422 contracts, change +0.6%. Geography: United States. Non-commercial long 344653, short 244310, spreading 546758 (weekly change: long 7947, short 6664). Commercial long 928629, short 1053964 (weekly change: long 34299, short 33176). Market as named by CFTC: WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE. Positions as of Tuesday 2026-10-13 (CFTC Legacy futures-only report).

Publication
CFTC Commitments of Traders - Legacy Futures Only (Socrata API) · Government/Regulator
Published
13th October 2026
Original report
cftc.gov

ProcIntel stores what the source published in its feed — a headline, a summary and a link. It does not store or reproduce the full article.

What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived
Category
Commodities & Input Costs
Geography
United States
Organisations
None identified
Collected
16th October 2026 · 20:41

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.

Significance 2 · Moderate
Confidence 3 · Moderate

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