COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 6,189 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 5,491 on 20 January.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the figure has 735 records. The series covers the time range going from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 6,642 contracts; they peaked at 15,101 on 17 March 2015; they registered a minimum of 2,447 on 6 March 2012.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 4995.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 5491.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 6189.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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