COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 231,673 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 216,192 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly time series plotted above has 733 data points. The time range covered by the series stretches from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 277,655 contracts on 24 March 2020; they recorded a minimum of 18,472 on 18 October 2011; they had a mean of 149,845.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 228425.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 216192.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 231673.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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