COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 243,324 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 251,518 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 770 observations in total. The time span covered by the series stretches from October 2011 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 154,953 contracts; they hit a minimum of 18,472 on 18 October 2011; they achieved a maximum of 315,629 on 24 March 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 260719.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 251518.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 243324.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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