COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in crude oil futures of the kind "BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 98,059 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 89,871 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 735 observations in total. The time period covered by the series goes from October 2011 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions attained a maximum of 113,189 contracts on 28 May 2019; they reached their minimum of 863 on 25 October 2011; they had a mean value of 50,388.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 85923.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 89871.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 98059.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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