COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 409,868 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 400,422 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 1,023 data points. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics calculated on the full sample: positions peaked at 409,868 contracts on 13 January 2026; they reached their lowest level of 76,675 on 19 February 2008; they had an average value of 219,109.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 386297.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 400422.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 409868.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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