COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders 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), long positions held by other reporting traders in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 31,211 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 32,977 on 22 September.
Sample. In the weekly series plotted above, there are 1,060 observations overall. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 139 contracts on 3 July 2007; they achieved a maximum of 48,992 on 24 July 2018; they had a mean of 15,373.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 33461.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 32977.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 31211.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other reporting traders 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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