COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 209,028 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 223,190 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions peaked at 519,545 contracts on 30 January 2018; they reached their minimum of 83,540 on 14 October 2008; they had a mean of 246,951.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 221896.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 223190.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 209028.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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