COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 102,368 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 87,083 on 12 May.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the plot has 1,041 data points overall. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 171,883 contracts on 15 March 2016; they hit a trough of 18,905 on 22 November 2022; they had a mean value of 86,315.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 87792.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 87083.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 102368.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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