COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 50,500 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 53,840 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 764 observations in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The period covered by the series stretches from October 2011 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 30,722 contracts; they reached a maximum of 84,623 on 3 March 2020; they reached their minimum of 0 on 12 August 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 47747.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 53840.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 50500.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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