COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 240,373 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 238,229 on 9 June.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 755 data points. The time period covered by the series stretches from October 2011 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 144,926 contracts; they hit a maximum of 304,477 on 24 March 2026; they hit a minimum of 16,358 on 18 October 2011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 214697.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 238229.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 240373.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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