COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by producers and merchants in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 131,401 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 134,525 on 9 June.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,045 data points in total. The time period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 139,920 contracts on 12 May 2026; they registered a minimum of 14,318 on 28 November 2006; they had a mean of 65,429.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 136980.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 134525.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 131401.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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