COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 43,791 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 45,565 on 9 June.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 755 records. The series covers the period extending from October 2011 to June 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached a maximum of 63,059 contracts on 22 October 2019; they hit a minimum of 869 on 14 August 2012; they had a mean of 23,046.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 45734.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 45565.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 43791.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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