COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in crude oil futures: WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Crude oil futures COT reports (CFTC)
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. According to the Commitments of Traders (COT) reports published by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 402,347 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 411,573 on 6 January.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 1,023 observations in total. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 332,338 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 109,978 on 24 October 2006; they hit a maximum of 640,487 on 16 March 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 380963.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 411573.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 402347.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in crude oil futures |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Stock |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Seasonally adjusted | No |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Rescaling | None |
| Measure type | Level |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of contracts |
| Source | Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) |
| Source type | Government agency |
| Data licence | Public domain information |
| Other information | Specific future: WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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