COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 100,339 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 97,126 on 9 June.
Sample. This weekly time series has 755 records in total. The series covers the time range going from October 2011 to June 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 40,186 contracts; they reached their minimum of 1,233 on 20 March 2012; they achieved a maximum of 100,339 on 16 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 79094.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 97126.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 100339.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other 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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