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 28,940 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 30,850 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a maximum of 75,560 contracts on 17 July 2018; they recorded a minimum of 3,635 on 13 October 2009; they were equal on average to 23,740.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 21854.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 30850.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 28940.0 |
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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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