COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by money managers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 8,391 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 7,006 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 4,784 contracts on 3 July 2006; they reached their maximum of 118,519 on 6 August 2019; they had a mean of 35,877.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 7301.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 7006.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 8391.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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