COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 302,987 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 276,269 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 109,978 contracts on 24 October 2006; they achieved a maximum of 640,487 on 16 March 2021; they had a mean of 331,990.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 298939.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 276269.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 302987.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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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