COT reports: Net long 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -82,723 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus -85,355 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to -40,573 contracts; they reached their highest level of 14,943 on 3 September 2019; they registered a minimum of -109,630 on 16 February 2021.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -85059.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -85355.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -82723.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long 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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