Crude Oil Futures (CLF) Price Data from February 2021

A single day of crude oil futures price data from 1 February 2021, sourced from Yahoo Finance. The dataset includes open, high, low, close, and adjusted close prices for the NY Mercantile Exchange. It was uploaded to OpenML for price prediction and analysis.

Use Cases

• Predicting future crude oil prices based on daily open, high, low, and close values.
• Analyzing intraday price volatility using the high and low price columns.
• Backtesting trading strategies for commodity futures using the adjusted closing price.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from a major financial data provider, Yahoo Finance.
• The description clearly defines the meaning of each price field (Open, High, Low, Close, Adj Close).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Yahoo Finance

Collection Method

Market data scrape from the NY Mercantile Exchange.

Time Range

1 February 2021