Money managers raised their net long U.S. crude futures and options positions in the week to July 25, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said on Friday.
The speculator group raise its combined futures and options position in New York and London by 24,928 contracts to 177,740 during the period.
The data below exclude trader positions in the NYMEX financial crude oil futures contract, which is normally included in our aggregate calculations. The data were not provided by the CFTC this week.
Selected categories from the CFTC weekly Commitment of Traders report:
FUTURES + OPTIONS Managed Swaps Producer
Net Chg Net Chg Net Chg
NYMEX Crude 192,104 18,820 -326,921 -10,274 38,007 -9,501
ICE WTI crude -14,364 6,108 -21,415 -3,930 -32,391 10,587
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Total 177,740 24,928 -348,336 -14,204 5,616 1,086
RBOB 71,510 6,842 19,922 -4,351 -89,594 2,890
Heating oil 24,792 6,183 41,303 55 -90,521 -6,027
Other NonReport Open
Net Chg Net Chg Interest Chg
NYMEX Crude 70,268 4,260 26,543 -3,304 2,216,203 27,842
ICE WTI crude 64,008 -14,300 4,162 1,534 632,232 -4,721
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Total 134,276 -10,040 30,705 -1,770 2,848,435 23,121
RBOB -12,192 -4,568 10,353 -813 369,414 931
Heating oil -251 -2,992 24,677 2,781 329,036 -6,355
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FUTURES ONLY Managed Swaps Producer
Net Chg Net Chg Net Chg
NYMEX Crude 182,850 20,929 -272,996 -8,567 22,020 -8,919
ICE WTI crude -13,835 6,244 -9,977 -4,011 -36,699 9,161
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Total 169,015 27,173 -282,973 -12,578 -14,679 242
RBOB 71,130 6,719 20,324 -4,173 -89,497 3,017
Heating oil 24,725 6,169 41,286 112 -89,754 -5,795
Other NonReport Open
Net Chg Net Chg Interest Chg
NYMEX Crude 42,346 -1,832 25,780 -1,611 1,743,598 -24,591
ICE WTI crude 56,346 -12,711 4,165 1,317 507,655 -20,248
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Total 98,692 -14,543 29,945 -294 2,251,253 -44,839
RBOB -12,379 -4,754 10,422 -809 366,832 148
Heating oil -227 -3,063 23,970 2,577 324,610 -7,180
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FUTURES + OPTS FUTURES ONLY
NYMEX Crude <0#3CFTC067651> <0#1CFTC067651>
NYMEX Crude financial <0#3CFTC06765I>
ICE WTI crude <0#3CFTC067411> <0#1CFTC067411>
RBOB <0#3CFTC111659> <0#1CFTC111659>
Heating oil <0#3CFTC022651> <0#1CFTC022651>
Additional CFTC data can be found at <0#CFTC> or
or the CFTC website at
http://www.cftc.gov/marketreports/commitmentsoftraders/index.htm
(Reporting by NY Energy Desk: 646-223-6050)
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