COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 4,018 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 4,019 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 751 data points in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the span of time stretching from October 2011 to May 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 0 contracts on 30 December 2014; they reached their highest level of 33,686 on 23 March 2021; they averaged 7,329.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 1822.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 4019.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 4018.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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