COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 174,209 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 148,771 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the plot, there are 1,023 observations. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 248,781 contracts; they peaked at 519,545 on 30 January 2018; they recorded a bottom of 83,540 on 14 October 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 146234.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 148771.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 174209.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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