COT reports: Net long 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), net long positions held by money managers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 74,188 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 74,488 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 12,004 contracts; they reached their maximum of 125,372 on 5 September 2017; they reached a minimum of -75,114 on 6 August 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 63473.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 74488.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 74188.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long 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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