COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 983 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 557 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 735 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time range extending from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 7,446 contracts; they reached their highest level of 33,686 on 23 March 2021; they reached a minimum of 0 on 30 December 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 237.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 557.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 983.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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