COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 111,927 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 110,185 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the graph, there are 1,023 data points overall. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 169,701 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 51,076 on 12 May 2009; they reached their maximum of 411,581 on 21 April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 115161.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 110185.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 111927.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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