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" were 87,932 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 79,291 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 744 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The time range covered by the series stretches from October 2011 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 1,233 contracts on 20 March 2012; they recorded a maximum of 88,473 on 30 December 2025; they averaged 39,506.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 74671.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 79291.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 87932.0 |
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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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