COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 8,658 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 9,131 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the figure, there are 1,054 records in total. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded a maximum of 24,217 contracts on 29 May 2018; they registered a minimum of 165 on 9 October 2007; they had a mean of 6,284.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 8837.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 9131.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 8658.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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