COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 376,056 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 379,431 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,023 records. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 207,542 contracts on 28 October 2008; they recorded their maximum of 703,430 on 14 February 2017; they were equal on average to 404,697.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 360725.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 379431.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 376056.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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