COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 17,950 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 16,606 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 733 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The time span covered by the series goes from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 5,556 contracts; they hit a trough of 0 on 15 June 2021; they recorded their highest level of 33,857 on 16 January 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 15774.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 16606.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 17950.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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