COT reports: Short positions held by non-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), short positions held by non-reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 40,837 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 45,953 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 1,028 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series extends from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 70,425 contracts; they hit a minimum of 40,837 on 17 February 2026; they achieved a maximum of 123,194 on 6 May 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 42792.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 45953.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 40837.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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