COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 126,639 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 124,243 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 1,023 records. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 73,023 contracts; they registered a minimum of 14,132 on 17 July 2018; they reached their highest level of 232,202 on 9 August 2016.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 130491.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 124243.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 126639.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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 |
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