COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 8,400 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 9,486 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the figure has 1,060 observations. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a maximum of 25,926 contracts on 11 June 2013; they reached a trough of 8,072 on 5 August 2025; they had a mean value of 14,752.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 9159.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 9486.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 8400.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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