COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 2,018,789 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,968,879 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the chart has 1,023 data points overall. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 1,731,583 contracts; they reached their minimum of 968,619 on 20 June 2006; they recorded their maximum of 2,706,454 on 15 May 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1898257.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1968879.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 2018789.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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