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 34,893 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 33,671 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 770 observations in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time span stretching from October 2011 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 63,059 contracts on 22 October 2019; they reached a minimum of 869 on 14 August 2012; they were equal on average to 23,302.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 34291.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 33671.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 34893.0 |
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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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