COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 615,887 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 607,458 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 observations in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 352,712 contracts; they peaked at 743,791 on 12 May 2026; they reached their lowest level of 106,712 on 22 September 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 643221.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 607458.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 615887.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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