COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 245,306 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 243,537 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the figure has 1,023 data points. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had an average value of 165,312 contracts; they reached their minimum of 53,929 on 6 March 2007; they attained a maximum of 316,018 on 15 August 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 237970.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 243537.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 245306.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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