COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 237 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 122 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 733 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The time span covered by the series extends from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 7,464 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 33,686 on 23 March 2021; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 15 January 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 121.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 122.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 237.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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