COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 57,803 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 54,757 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 41,239 contracts on 21 May 2024; they recorded a maximum of 123,194 on 6 May 2008; they were equal on average to 70,546.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 55480.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 54757.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 57803.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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