COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 84,030 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 80,015 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 733 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 38,966 contracts; they reached a trough of 1,233 on 20 March 2012; they recorded their highest level of 88,473 on 30 December 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 88473.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 80015.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 84030.0 |
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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: BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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