COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in crude oil futures: BRENT LAST DAY - 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 "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 7,300 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 6,152 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the chart has 733 observations. The series covers the time range extending from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 7,697 contracts; they reached their maximum of 25,101 on 17 July 2018; they hit a trough of 0 on 7 November 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 6987.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 6152.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 7300.0 |
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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: BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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