COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 643,221 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 655,691 on 8 September.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,058 observations in total. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 106,712 contracts on 22 September 2009; they attained a maximum of 743,791 on 12 May 2026; they had a mean of 352,223.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 645,739 |
| 2026-09-08 | 655,691 |
| 2026-09-15 | 643,221 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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