COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 226,678 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 211,201 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 733 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The period covered by the series is from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their maximum of 270,099 contracts on 24 March 2020; they reached their minimum of 15,591 on 18 October 2011; they had a mean of 143,201.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 224504.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 211201.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 226678.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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