COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at -39,849 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus -49,193 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 770 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time period covered by the series extends from October 2011 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to -28,530 contracts; they hit a minimum of -73,029 on 12 January 2016; they achieved a maximum of 10,406 on 16 March 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | -48525.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -49193.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -39849.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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