COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 7,709 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus 6,933 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 768 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series extends from October 2011 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 6,660 contracts; they hit a trough of 2,447 on 6 March 2012; they recorded their highest level of 15,101 on 17 March 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 6,179.00 |
| 2026-09-08 | 6,933.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | 7,709.00 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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