COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 113,558 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 111,924 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 319,892 contracts on 1 June 2010; they hit a trough of 34,738 on 15 April 2025; they had a mean value of 157,124.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 118240.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 111924.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 113558.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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