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 1,813,852 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 1,817,080 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 2,588,458 contracts on 15 May 2018; they hit a minimum of 916,902 on 20 June 2006; they averaged 1,654,045.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1806505.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1817080.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1813852.0 |
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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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