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" stood at 34,611 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 19,280 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 82,757 contracts; they reached a trough of -77,986 on 3 August 2010; they recorded a maximum of 339,702 on 21 April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 25485.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 19280.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 34611.0 |
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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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