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 21,841 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 22,668 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 768 records overall. The series covers the period stretching from October 2011 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions attained a maximum of 57,875 contracts on 24 February 2026; they hit a minimum of 498 on 21 February 2012; they had a mean value of 21,671.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 20,658.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 22,668.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 21,841.0 |
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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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