COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,888,960 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 1,892,429 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 968,619 contracts on 20 June 2006; they peaked at 2,706,454 on 15 May 2018; they had an average value of 1,739,403.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1886816.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1892429.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1888960.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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