COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in copper futures: COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Copper 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 21,435 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 18,865 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 15,259 contracts; they reached their highest level of 51,824 on 21 January 2020; they reached their minimum of 677 on 3 October 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 17944.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 18865.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 21435.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in copper 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: COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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