COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 8,676 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 9,207 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 764 data points in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from October 2011 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 6,655 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 2,447 on 6 March 2012; they peaked at 15,101 on 17 March 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 7058.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 9207.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 8676.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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