COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 417,137 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 401,682 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 62,071 contracts on 17 March 2009; they reached a maximum of 852,769 on 30 January 2018; they had a mean of 370,025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 412404.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 401682.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 417137.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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