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" stood at -32,531 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to -28,964 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 768 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time span extending from October 2011 to September 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 29,181 contracts on 23 August 2016; they reached a trough of -64,631 on 17 March 2020; they had a mean of -9,160.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | -29,024.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | -28,964.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | -32,531.0 |
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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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