COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,960,986 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,914,122 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 903,260 contracts on 20 June 2006; they recorded a maximum of 2,618,389 on 15 May 2018; they had a mean of 1,661,037.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1842777.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1914122.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1960986.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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