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 1,702 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 1,694 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 764 records in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period extending from October 2011 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 0 contracts on 30 December 2014; they hit a peak of 33,686 on 23 March 2021; they were equal on average to 7,247.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1666.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1694.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1702.0 |
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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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