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" were 292,016 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 313,935 on 12 May.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the chart has 1,041 data points overall. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 333,035 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 640,487 on 16 March 2021; they reached a trough of 109,978 on 24 October 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 324225.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 313935.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 292016.0 |
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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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