COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -467 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to -3,668 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 733 observations overall. The time span covered by the series stretches from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of -8,255 contracts; they reached their maximum of 29,181 on 23 August 2016; they reached their lowest level of -64,631 on 17 March 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -766.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -3668.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -467.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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