COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 423,265 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 399,525 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 640,487 contracts on 16 March 2021; they reached a minimum of 109,978 on 24 October 2006; they had an average value of 332,492.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 402347.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 399525.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 423265.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers 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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