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 90,010 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 105,012 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a minimum of 18,905 contracts on 22 November 2022; they reached their maximum of 171,883 on 15 March 2016; they had a mean value of 86,539.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 93838.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 105012.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 90010.0 |
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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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