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" stood at 32,954 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 32,877 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 764 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from October 2011 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 23,217 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 63,059 on 22 October 2019; they reached their lowest level of 869 on 14 August 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 32102.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 32877.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 32954.0 |
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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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