COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 259,578 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 231,282 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the chart has 735 data points in total. The series covers the period stretching from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions hit a minimum of 16,358 contracts on 18 October 2011; they attained a maximum of 270,009 on 24 March 2020; they had an average value of 142,063.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 223549.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 231282.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 259578.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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