COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 319,539 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 302,900 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of -341,911 contracts on 21 February 2017; they recorded a maximum of 399,298 on 14 July 2026; they averaged -50,074.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 307409.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 302900.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 319539.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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