COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 40,408 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 36,441 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the graph has 733 observations overall. The time period covered by the series extends from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 21,326 contracts; they attained a maximum of 57,671 on 30 September 2025; they registered a minimum of 498 on 21 February 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 42649.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 36441.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 40408.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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