COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 24,238 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 22,189 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 751 data points in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series extends from October 2011 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 21,707 contracts; they hit a trough of 498 on 21 February 2012; they hit a peak of 57,875 on 24 February 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 21554.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 22189.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 24238.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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