COT reports: Long positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 84,298 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 86,874 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points in the weekly time series shown in the chart above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a maximum of 141,021 contracts on 17 November 2009; they registered a minimum of 42,323 on 4 November 2008; they averaged 85,340.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 76,748.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 86,874.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 84,298.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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