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" stood at 315,517 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 339,197 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a peak of 399,298 contracts on 14 July 2026; they reached their minimum of -341,911 on 21 February 2017; they had a mean of -52,118.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 334920.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 339197.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 315517.0 |
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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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