COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in crude oil futures of the kind "WTI-PHYSICAL - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -307,386 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to -301,484 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 210,415 contracts on 28 April 2009; they reached their minimum of -680,766 on 6 February 2018; they were equal on average to -211,378.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | -295291.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | -301484.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | -307386.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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