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." were 13,269 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 14,029 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 records in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 35,511 contracts; they hit a peak of 118,519 on 6 August 2019; they hit a trough of 4,784 on 3 July 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 16927.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 14029.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 13269.0 |
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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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