COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 11,351 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 10,586 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. There are 755 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series is from October 2011 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 0 contracts on 15 June 2021; they reached their maximum of 33,857 on 16 January 2024; they averaged 5,853.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 10216.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 10586.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 11351.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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