COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -96,274 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus -97,517 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged -42,147 contracts; they reached their lowest level of -114,904 on 2 June 2026; they hit a peak of 14,943 on 3 September 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -92844.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -97517.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -96274.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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