COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 10,558 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 32,824 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 83,210 contracts; they reached their highest level of 339,702 on 21 April 2020; they hit a trough of -77,986 on 3 August 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 48848.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 32824.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 10558.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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