COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 7,353 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 8,000 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 1,060 observations. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions peaked at 36,475 contracts on 24 July 2018; they reached a trough of -83,349 on 15 August 2017; they had a mean value of -6,740.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 10028.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 8000.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 7353.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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