COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by producers and merchants in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 112,913 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 114,550 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 64,216 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 14,318 on 28 November 2006; they reached their highest level of 132,108 on 31 January 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 114715.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 114550.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 112913.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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