COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 408,149 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 391,178 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 219,462 contracts; they reached their highest level of 409,868 on 13 January 2026; they recorded a minimum of 76,675 on 19 February 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 409868.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 391178.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 408149.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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