WTI Crude Oil (CL) February (G) contract study: year-by-year results, the day-by-day shape of the move and where highs and lows printed.
Contract Almanac · WTI Crude Oil
Every February crude contract 2011–2026, measured over its tenure as the lead contract · Typically leads Dec 17 – Jan 16
The February crude contract is the best month on the CL board, and this is its full file: sixteen tenures, year by year, with the day-by-day shape of the move and the trading days its highs and lows actually printed. The short version is that the G contract is a trender. It starts slow, builds through the middle, and in most years finishes within a few days of its extreme.
Each year is one contract, measured from the open of the day it took over the lead to the close of the day it handed off, the same roll convention used across all Traders Brief research. Tenure lengths vary by a few trading days from year to year, so day counts differ slightly at the tail. All highs and lows are the contract’s own trades, marked by trading day of the tenure, not calendar day.