COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 261,300 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 234,557 on 20 January.
Sample. This weekly series has 735 data points overall. The span of time covered by the series is from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 270,099 contracts on 24 March 2020; they recorded a bottom of 15,591 on 18 October 2011; they averaged 143,486.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 226678.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 234557.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 261300.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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