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 605,897 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 602,551 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,023 observations. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 106,712 contracts on 22 September 2009; they reached their highest level of 711,108 on 15 July 2025; they had a mean of 341,967.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 596330.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 602551.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 605897.0 |
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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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