WTI (CL) — price and volatility
Crude oil WTI
CL: price 92.05, 24h change -4.00%. Commodity market quotes. Updated in real time.
What this is
EnergyWTI crude — the American grade and the benchmark for the US market. Priced per barrel.
Chart
Chart built from data of Bybit
What the data shows
CL trades at 92.05. Over 365 days it ranged between 54.97 and 119.43; the price now sits in the middle of that range — 57% of the way from the yearly low to the high.
All-time high is 147.27 (July 2008); the price is 37% below it now.
24-hour turnover is $1.4B — the 100th percentile for the year: noticeably busier than usual.
Open positions in CL are worth $407.4M. Over the past hour open interest fell by 0.06%. That is the 1th percentile over three weeks: noticeably fewer positions than usual.
Over the day -4.00%, over the hour +0.09%, over the last five minutes +0.03% — the move has only just started.
The daily range is 5.7% and five-minute NATR is 0.10%. That range is in the 78th percentile for the year — an ordinary day for it.
This is a commodity instrument. It reacts to inventories, weather and decisions of producing countries, not to crypto news.
By turnover it ranks 15 of 2005 instruments in the screener.
NATR is 0.02% on the minute and 0.88% on the hour — the move is choppy: within an hour price travels far and comes back.
CL correlation with Bitcoin over 24 hours is 0.02 — it goes its own way, barely looking at Bitcoin.
Traded on 9 venues: Binance, Bybit, MEXC, Gate, Bitget, BingX, KuCoin, Coinbase Intl, Yahoo — the price is cross-checked across several sources.
Funding is -0.0032%: shorts pay longs, so positioning leans to sellers. For this coin that is an ordinary rate — the 48th percentile for the month.
By daily range it ranks 1142 of 2005.
Built from current numbers and the coin's own year of history. Updates with the data.
How CL behaved before
Tracked since May 2003 — 280 full months. 153 of 280 closed higher, median month +2.0%.
In September the instrument rose 9 times out of 23, median -3.6%.
Best month — May 2020: +80.4%. Worst — March 2020: -53.7%.
Computed from our own minute history, month by month. The past promises nothing — but it shows what is ordinary for this instrument and what is not.
Our observations
KairoRight now CL is within its usual range: volume, funding and open interest are all unremarkable.
Computed from our own minute history for this coin over a year. Percentile is the share of days the value was below today's. Description only, no forecasts.
What we noticed earlier
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How to read this
- Funding is a payment between longs and shorts. A positive rate means longs pay shorts: the market is crowded long.
- The rate rank shows how unusual that rate is for this particular coin: 97 means above 97% of the last month, a rare skew. Without the rank the bare number says nothing — every coin has its own normal.
- Open interest is the money sitting in positions that are still open. Rising alongside price means new money entering; rising while price falls means shorts building up.
- The OI rank is measured in contracts rather than dollars: otherwise it would drift up with price alone and claim a record where nothing changed.
- NATR shows how much a coin moves relative to its own price. High NATR with high turnover is where today's action is.
Large trader positions (CFTC)
report of 15/09/26Funds bet ON upside: longs exceed shorts by 135.9K contracts (≈$12.5B)· skew shrank by 674 this week
Every week CME reports to the US regulator how many WTI Crude (NYMEX) contracts speculator funds hold long vs short — the only public data on big-money positioning. When the skew hits an extreme, the fund crowd runs out of buyers and moves often reverse.
Hedgers net: −164.9K
How much money sits in open positions on each venue. The total spans every exchange listing the contract.