COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,953,664 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,900,708 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a minimum of 916,902 contracts on 20 June 2006; they recorded their highest level of 2,588,458 on 15 May 2018; they had a mean value of 1,646,079.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1837115.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1900708.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1953664.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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