COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 121,846 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 107,796 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 158,829 contracts; they reached a trough of 34,738 on 15 April 2025; they peaked at 319,892 on 1 June 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 106546.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 107796.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 121846.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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