COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,798,726 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 1,765,465 on 22 September.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the graph, there are 1,060 data points in total. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 1,655,027 contracts; they attained a maximum of 2,588,458 on 15 May 2018; they reached their minimum of 916,902 on 20 June 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 1871466.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 1765465.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 1798726.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all reporting traders 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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