COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 29,871 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 39,278 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the figure, there are 1,060 records in total. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 82,476 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 339,702 on 21 April 2020; they hit a trough of -77,986 on 3 August 2010.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 29626.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 39278.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 29871.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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