COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 292,801 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 292,171 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 169,017 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 316,334 on 15 August 2017; they hit a trough of 52,829 on 13 March 2007.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 280304.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 292171.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 292801.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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