COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 40,875 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 40,109 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 733 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time range going from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a maximum of 84,623 contracts on 3 March 2020; they hit a trough of 0 on 12 August 2014; they were equal on average to 29,581.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 43415.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 40109.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 40875.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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