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WTI net positioning

Speculative length in crude sits on top of a physical market that clears without it. At an extreme the position becomes the risk, because an unwind moves the price with no change in barrels.

Latest
141,106 contracts
As of
22 Sept 2026
Standard deviations
-0.54
Percentile
28th percentile

30 days to 4 Oct 2026 · 135,905 contracts to 141,106 contracts

The archive behind this

This page shows the last 30 days. WTI net positioning has 178 readings in the warehouse, back to 2 May 2023. A plan opens the rest of it, with CSV export and the analyst.

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Source

QuantNow Derived Research

Non-commercial long less non-commercial short positions in the CFTC Legacy Futures Only report for WTI Crude Oil Futures.

Informational research only. Nothing here is personalised investment advice.