Commitments of Traders
Data through 2026-09-01 · published 2026-09-05 08:30 UTC · Managed-money positioning and open interest across the energy complex.
The brief
Measured — generated from the table by fixed rule, no model in this path
Largest move: Natural gas (open interest) up to 1,807,497 contracts (1.8-sigma)
Natural gas (open interest) rose by 59,767, to 1,807,497 contracts, a 1.8-sigma move for this series, leaving it at the 100th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years.
- RBOB gasoline (managed money net) rose by 9,563, to 89,215 contracts, leaving it at the 100th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years.
- Natural gas (managed money net) fell by 17,808, to -89,481 contracts, leaving it at the 0th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years.
- WTI crude (managed money net) rose by 10,261, to 94,281 contracts, leaving it at the 100th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years.
Sitting at an extreme
- WTI crude (managed money net) sits at the 100th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years (94,281 contracts).
- Brent crude (managed money net) sits at the 100th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years (-10,747 contracts).
- RBOB gasoline (managed money net) sits at the 100th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years (89,215 contracts).
- NY Harbor ULSD (managed money net) sits at the 0th percentile of the same-week window across 1 prior years (20,344 contracts).
Not evaluated.- wti_mm_pctl not computed: CFTC.WTI.MM_Net has 87 weekly observations, needs 104 (~2y) before a percentile means anything
- brent_mm_pctl not computed: CFTC.BRENT.MM_Net has 87 weekly observations, needs 104 (~2y) before a percentile means anything
The table
| Metric | Date | Value | Change | y/y | Units |
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| Managed money net |
| WTI crude | 2026-09-01 | 94,281 | w/w 10,261 | 66,958 | contracts |
| Brent crude | 2026-09-01 | -10,747 | w/w -388 | 30,032 | contracts |
| RBOB gasoline | 2026-09-01 | 89,215 | w/w 9,563 | 43,897 | contracts |
| NY Harbor ULSD | 2026-09-01 | 20,344 | w/w 3,703 | -19,327 | contracts |
| Natural gas | 2026-09-01 | -89,481 | w/w -17,808 | -52,719 | contracts |
| Open interest |
| WTI crude | 2026-09-01 | 1,921,085 | w/w 14,345 | -66,776 | contracts |
| Brent crude | 2026-09-01 | 767,357 | w/w -10,817 | -31,727 | contracts |
| RBOB gasoline | 2026-09-01 | 353,876 | w/w 7,742 | 33,931 | contracts |
| NY Harbor ULSD | 2026-09-01 | 265,540 | w/w -5,729 | -99,309 | contracts |
| Natural gas | 2026-09-01 | 1,807,497 | w/w 59,767 | 171,828 | contracts |
Check it against the source
These figures come from the published series, not from transcribing anyone's PDF — so they can be checked against the originals directly:
Every sentence above the table was generated from the table by fixed rule — the lede is the largest move measured in units of that series' own recent changes, so a crude build and a rig move can be ranked against each other. Re-run it on the same date and the text is identical. Method:
methodology ·
how we checked it against EIA's final edition.