COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 229,841 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 223,120 on 6 January.
Sample. In the weekly series displayed in the figure, there are 1,023 records. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged -62,729 contracts; they hit a trough of -341,911 on 21 February 2017; they attained a maximum of 309,536 on 21 October 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 235605.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 223120.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 229841.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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