COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 24 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 1,687 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 733 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The time period covered by the series goes from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded a minimum of 0 contracts on 9 December 2014; they achieved a maximum of 14,681 on 8 October 2013; they had a mean value of 2,155.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1720.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1687.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 24.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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