COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by money managers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 11,619 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 13,491 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series shown in the graph, there are 1,028 observations in total. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a minimum of 4,784 contracts on 3 July 2006; they recorded their highest level of 118,519 on 6 August 2019; they had a mean of 35,765.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 13920.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 13491.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 11619.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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