Crude Oil (WTI) Sentiment
commodity · Last computed 7/26/2026, 5:00:03 PM UTC
Composite Score (24h)
-0.37
-0.37
Fear & Greed Index: 26/100
Methodology
News (50%): AI-analyzed sentiment from articles mentioning Crude Oil (WTI).
Crowd (25%): Not available for this asset.
Institutional (25%): CFTC leveraged-funds positioning percentile.
This is measurement, not prediction. Not financial advice.
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Understanding
How the Crude Oil (WTI) score is built
Three independent layers feed this score. The news layer is our AI reading every relevant Crude Oil (WTI) article our pipeline ingests, scored from -1 to +1. The crowd layer comes from derivatives positioning (funding percentiles, long/short ratios). The institutional layer comes from weekly CFTC positioning where a matching futures market exists.
The layers deliberately disagree at the most interesting moments. Panicked news with washed-out crowd positioning is the classic capitulation setup; euphoric news with crowded longs is its mirror. The composite blends them (news 0.5, crowd 0.25, institutional 0.25, renormalized when a layer has no data), but the layer breakdown above is where the actual reading happens.
Sentiment is a contrarian tool at extremes and a confirming tool in the middle. We recompute hourly; the history shows how scores evolved into and out of recent moves.
Common Questions
Why is a layer sometimes null?
Quiet news days produce no scoreable Crude Oil (WTI) articles, and not every asset has a matching futures market. The composite renormalizes over whatever layers have data.
What do the windows mean?
24h reflects the latest news cycle; 7d smooths it. Divergence between the two flags a fresh shift in coverage.