COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 22,715 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 23,629 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 10,087 contracts; they registered a minimum of 295 on 8 January 2019; they recorded their highest level of 31,594 on 4 November 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 25632.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 23629.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 22715.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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