COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 152,323 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 137,620 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 169,115 contracts; they reached a minimum of 51,076 on 12 May 2009; they reached their maximum of 411,581 on 21 April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 149306.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 137620.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 152323.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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