COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 34,297 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 33,797 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 677 contracts on 3 October 2006; they reached their maximum of 51,824 on 21 January 2020; they had a mean of 15,031.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 33032.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 33797.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 34297.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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