COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in copper futures of the kind "COPPER-GRADE #1 - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 30,349 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 30,842 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,023 records. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a bottom of 295 contracts on 8 January 2019; they recorded their maximum of 31,594 on 4 November 2025; they had a mean of 9,904.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 29799.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 30842.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 30349.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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