COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 22,810 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 25,188 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 23,704 contracts; they reached a trough of 3,635 on 13 October 2009; they peaked at 75,560 on 17 July 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 24839.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 25188.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 22810.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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