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Wednesday, October 28, 2026

LME Commitments of Traders

Positions as of Fri 16 Oct 2026; published Tue 20 Oct 2026

LME Commitments of Traders for 22 metals: investment funds and commercial undertakings net, positions as of Fri 16 Oct 2026.

Positions as of Fri 16 Oct 2026 - published Tue 20 Oct 2026 (generated T+2)

The LME publishes a Commitments of Traders report per metal: positions at the Friday close, published the following Tuesday. Categories are the MiFID II set. Open interest here is the sum of category long positions in the COTR itself, which includes delta hedge equivalents and does not equal the LME market open interest report.

MetalInvestment funds netWeek changeCommercial undertakings netOpen interest, lotsPosition date
Aluminium Alloy+0+0+183532021-01-15
Aluminium High Grade+123,350-1,573-123,609892,8362026-10-16
Cobalt+1,353+0+901,4432026-10-16
Copper A Grade+33,640-7,075-32,138417,4522026-10-16
Copper MAF+0+0-2351,9122026-10-16
LME Alumina (CRU/Fastmarkets MB)+0+0+002020-05-29
LME Aluminium Premium Duty Paid European (Fastmarkets MB)+0+0+4251,2502026-10-16
LME Aluminium Premium Duty Paid US Midwest (Platts)+0+0+002026-07-03
LME Steel HRC FOB China (Argus)+0+0-4281,9162026-10-16
LME Steel HRC N. America (Platts)+0+0+585132021-01-15
LME Steel Rebar FOB Turkey (Platts)+0+0-1,6411,7732026-10-16
LME Steel Scrap CFR Turkey (Platts)+120-116-3,99513,5512026-10-16
Lead-33,466-1,446+2,627271,0272026-10-16
Lead MAF+0+0+18742026-10-16
Nickel MAF+0+0+01312026-10-16
North American Special Aluminium Alloy+0+0+1786532021-01-15
Primary Aluminium MAF+0+0-1,6015,7122026-10-16
Primary Nickel+452-4,606+6,151343,6322026-10-16
Special High Grade Zinc+36,347-3,724-31,016381,1972026-10-16
Tin+1,846-548-4,18325,8822026-10-16
Tin MAF+0+0+0852026-10-09
Zinc MAF+0+0+721242026-10-16

Reports were recalculated and republished by the LME after a 2023 vendor cyber incident, and individual reports were corrected in 2025 and 2026. The banked files, and so these pages, are the current corrected versions.

Source: LME Commitments of Traders reports, weekly, from 3 Jan 2020. Positions as of Fri 16 Oct 2026.