COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 34,323 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 30,595 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 733 data points in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series extends from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 22,308 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 869 on 14 August 2012; they recorded their highest level of 63,059 on 22 October 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 29021.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 30595.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 34323.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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