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 306,122 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 329,619 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 411,797 contracts on 17 February 2026; they hit a trough of 76,675 on 19 February 2008; they had a mean of 223,525.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 331,141 |
| 2026-09-08 | 329,619 |
| 2026-09-15 | 306,122 |
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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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