COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 101,369 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 77,361 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a peak of 171,883 contracts on 15 March 2016; they recorded a bottom of 18,905 on 22 November 2022; they were equal on average to 86,491.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 66313.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 77361.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 101369.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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