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 287,728 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 267,288 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a minimum of -341,911 contracts on 21 February 2017; they reached their maximum of 309,536 on 21 October 2025; they had a mean value of -59,917.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 249396.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 267288.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 287728.0 |
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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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