WTI Houston Argus/WTI Balmo
Weekly CFTC positioning for WTI Houston Argus/WTI Balmo on New York Mercantile Exchange: the disaggregated report (managed money, producers, swap dealers), futures only.
As of 27 October 2026, managed money was net short 840 contracts in WTI Houston Argus/WTI Balmo while swap dealers held no net position. Managed money cut 300 net contracts over one week. The COT Index sits at 0%, near the bottom of its one-year range. Open interest is 35,196 contracts, the 89th largest of 147 energy markets by open interest. Weekly reports since October 2025.
-840
Managed money, net
contracts
0
Swap dealers, net
contracts
35,196
Open interest
contracts
0%
COT index, 1 year
bottom of range
As of 2026-10-27. Positions as of the Tuesday report date; published by the CFTC on Friday.
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Recent Reports
| Date | OI | Managed money, net | Swap dealers, net |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 35,196 | -840 | 0 |
| 2026-10-20 | 34,896 | -540 | 0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 29,352 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 27,521 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-28 | 28,430 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-28 | 34,630 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-21 | 33,530 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-14 | 28,675 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-04-07 | 21,858 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 43,897 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-03-17 | 40,552 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-03-10 | 28,816 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-24 | 38,631 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 33,295 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 30,590 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 21,515 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-11-25 | 30,149 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-11-18 | 29,149 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-10-21 | 32,137 | 100 | 0 |
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What the latest data says
As of 27 October 2026, managed money net position in WTI Houston Argus/WTI Balmo is net short 840 contracts, down 840 contracts over the last four weeks. Over the last 19 readings it ranged from -840 contracts (27 October 2026) to 100 contracts (21 October 2025). The latest reading sits at the bottom of that range.
What this data is
CFTC positioning (COT) for WTI Houston Argus/WTI Balmo
Every Friday at 3:30 pm Eastern the CFTC publishes who held what in US futures markets as of the previous Tuesday. Large traders are grouped by what they do, not who they are, and the report shows each group's long, short and spread positions. That's the Commitments of Traders report, published weekly for futures on currencies, rates, equity indices, energy, metals and agriculture.
Financial futures use the Traders in Financial Futures format: dealers and intermediaries, asset managers and institutional investors, leveraged funds, and other reportables. Commodities use the disaggregated format: producers, merchants, processors and users; swap dealers; managed money; and other reportables. Positions too small to report are shown as nonreportable in both.
This page follows WTI Houston Argus/WTI Balmo only. The full list and the cross-market view live on the CFTC positioning (COT) hub.
Source and updates
- Source
- CFTC Commitments of Traders (Traders in Financial Futures and Disaggregated reports)
- Credit
- CFTC.
- Updates
- Weekly. Positions as of Tuesday, published by the CFTC on Friday at 3:30 pm Eastern and added here the same evening. Latest report 2026-10-27.
- History
- 21 October 2025.
- This series
- 19 weekly reports on file, 2025-10-21 to 2026-10-27.Disaggregated format, futures only, New York Mercantile Exchange.
- Get the data
- JSON API and CSV download10 requests a minute without a key, 30 with a free key from a free account.
How to read it
- Look at the net position of the speculative category (leveraged funds or managed money) relative to its own history, not its absolute size.
- When speculators and the structural side (asset managers or producers) sit at opposite ends of their own ranges, the two groups are positioned against each other.
- Open interest is the denominator. A net long that grew while open interest shrank is a crowd getting smaller, not more confident.
Analysis of what the data shows, not advice. XOOMAR does not recommend buying, selling or holding anything.
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