COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 127,570 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 119,410 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a peak of 343,049 contracts on 17 July 2007; they registered a minimum of 80,128 on 11 February 2025; they averaged 175,353.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 105584.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 119410.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 127570.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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