COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 3,978 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 4,943 on 24 March.
Sample. In the weekly series plotted above, there are 744 observations in total. The series covers the time range going from October 2011 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 7,754 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 25,101 on 17 July 2018; they hit a trough of 0 on 7 November 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 9610.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 4943.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 3978.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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