COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 47,570 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 24,528 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,023 observations in total. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 175,758 contracts; they registered a minimum of -42,735 on 11 November 2008; they reached their highest level of 483,829 on 16 January 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 15743.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 24528.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 47570.0 |
Nugget of wisdom. Our metadata often include references to the original sources of the time-series data shown on FetchSeries. You can use these references to discover more details.
Not for investment purposes. Any financial data published on this web site are not not supposed to be used for investment purposes or other financial decisions. Users should consult professional advice and do independent analysis before taking any financial risk.
Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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 |
Series in the same data set
Discover the other time series included in this data set.