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" were 266,755 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 256,308 on 10 February.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the graph, there are a total of 738 records. The series covers the time span stretching from October 2011 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 15,591 contracts on 18 October 2011; they peaked at 270,099 on 24 March 2020; they had a mean of 143,930.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 235001.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 256308.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 266755.0 |
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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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