Oil on TradingView: USOIL, CL1!, UKOIL and Brent

WTI vs Brent

WTI (West Texas Intermediate) is the US benchmark, delivered at Cushing, Oklahoma, and traded as CL futures on NYMEX. Brent is the North Sea benchmark used to price much of the world’s oil, traded on ICE Futures Europe. They move together but not identically; Brent has usually traded above WTI in recent years. When a broker says “US Oil” or “WTI” it means the first; “UK Oil” or “Brent” means the second.

Why don’t these prices match?

• Spot and CFD prices (like USOIL) come from a broker or data provider. Every broker quotes slightly differently and adds its own spread, so your broker’s chart can differ a little from TradingView’s.
• Futures (like CL1!) are contracts for a future date. Their price includes the cost of carrying the position until expiry, so they usually sit a little away from spot, and the gap shrinks as expiry approaches.
• ETFs trade as shares on a stock exchange, at a fraction of the market’s price, and only during stock market hours.

What does “1!” mean on TradingView?

A ticker ending in 1! is TradingView’s continuous contract: it always shows the front (nearest) futures month and switches to the next contract when it rolls over. 2! is the next month after that. Because each contract has a different price, the chart can jump at the roll. To chart a single expiry instead, search for the dated contract.

Trading hours

Oil futures and most oil CFDs trade almost 24 hours a day from Sunday evening to Friday afternoon (US time), with a daily one-hour break. Our live stock market hours and forex market hours clocks show what’s open in your time zone.

Which one should you use?

Trading oil with a CFD broker? Use USOIL for WTI or UKOIL for Brent, or your broker’s own feed. Trading futures? Use CL1! (or MCL1! for smaller size) and BRN1!.

Building a list of these? Add them to a watchlist with the Watchlist Builder, and see our symbol format guide for how TradingView writes tickers.

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