COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 49,328 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 45,158 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 751 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The period covered by the series extends from October 2011 to May 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 118,501 contracts on 24 March 2020; they hit a minimum of 0 on 1 November 2011; they averaged 39,148.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 42218.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 45158.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 49328.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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