COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 238,000 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 241,438 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 751 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from October 2011 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 306,659 contracts on 24 March 2026; they hit a minimum of 15,591 on 18 October 2011; they averaged 145,903.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 225196.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 241438.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 238000.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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