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 25,262 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 35,300 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time range covered by the series extends from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 15,414 contracts; they hit a peak of 51,824 on 21 January 2020; they hit a minimum of 677 on 3 October 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 39610.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 35300.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 25262.0 |
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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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