Below is the Commitments of Traders (COT) report for BRENT LAST DAY - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (COT legacy report, futures only) with COT charts. This COT report for BRENT LAST DAY is as of 2026-08-18. COT reports are released each Friday (except for U.S. holidays) by the CFTC. Each COT report release includes data from the previous Tuesday.
| Non-Commercial | Commercial | Total | Non-Reportable | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long | Short | Spreads | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | Short |
| (CONTRACTS OF 1,000 BARRELS) | Open Interest: 253,532 | |||||||
| 41,492 | 73,742 | 114,611 | 88,159 | 56,503 | 244,262 | 244,856 | 9,270 | 8,676 |
| Changes | (Change In Open Interest: +19,560 ) | |||||||
| -163 | +6,233 | +16,775 | +4,353 | -2,917 | +20,965 | +20,091 | -1,405 | -531 |
| Percent of Open Interest for Each Category of Traders | ||||||||
| 16.4% | 29.1% | 45.2% | 34.8% | 22.3% | 96.3% | 96.6% | 3.7% | 3.4% |
| Number of Traders in Each Category | (Total Traders: 53) | |||||||
| 15 | 17 | 28 | 20 | 18 | 49 | 49 | ||