COT reports: Long positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 11,127 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 8,987 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 770 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The time span covered by the series goes from October 2011 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 8,155 contracts; they registered a minimum of 1,863 on 20 November 2012; they achieved a maximum of 19,071 on 15 May 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 10423.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 8987.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 11127.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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