NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) COT Report
The Commitment of Traders (COT) report shows how the largest traders are positioned in NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) futures each week. The CFTC splits open interest into speculators (managed money) and commercial hedgers, so you can see who is leaning which way. Tracking when NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) speculative positioning reaches an extreme, and how speculators line up against commercials, is one of the most widely followed sentiment tools in futures.
What drives NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) positioning
In energy, commercials are producers, refiners and merchants hedging output and crack spreads, while speculators chase momentum. Crowded speculative extremes in NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) frequently coincide with exhaustion in the prevailing move. This is the CFTC's NY Harbor ULSD contract, still widely called heating oil. It settles on ultra-low-sulfur diesel, so positioning reflects freight and industrial diesel demand, distillate inventories, refinery run rates and the crack against crude, with a Northeast winter heating tilt on top.
How to read the NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) COT report
Read NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) through the 52-week z-score, which measures how stretched speculative positioning is against the past year of producer and fund flows: strongly positive is crowded long, deeply negative is crowded short. Energy extremes frequently coincide with turns in the underlying move, and the positioning regime separates a healthy trend from a stretched one. Because the contract is diesel rather than heating oil alone, read extremes against total distillate and ULSD stocks; the winter heating tilt is one component of the demand, not the whole of it. New here? Begin with how to read the COT report.
COTInsight scores NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) on nine analytical layers every week, the moment the CFTC data lands: the 52-week z-score, the 3-year COT Index, an eight-state regime classifier, momentum and streak, open-interest trend, price-versus-positioning divergence, small-speculator extremes, the full participant breakdown and market concentration, with up to ten years of history so you can see how today compares to every prior extreme.
NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) COT report FAQ
Which CFTC report covers NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel)?
NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) positioning comes from the CFTC Disaggregated Commitments of Traders report, which splits NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) open interest into Producer/Merchant/Processor/User and Swap Dealer hedgers on one side and Managed Money and Other Reportables on the other. COTInsight reads it directly from the CFTC every week.
When is the NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) COT report updated?
The CFTC releases the Commitments of Traders report every Friday at 3:30pm ET, reflecting positions as of the prior Tuesday. COTInsight recomputes the NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) z-score, COT Index and regime the moment the data lands.
Is NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) COT positioning bullish or bearish right now?
The COT report is a positioning and sentiment gauge, not a direct buy or sell signal: it shows whether speculators are crowded long or short in NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel). COTInsight scores this week's NY Harbor ULSD (Diesel) reading on a 52-week z-score, a 3-year COT Index and a positioning regime. Start a free 7-day trial to see the current reading.
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