COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in aluminum futures: ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Aluminum 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 215 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 300 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the plot has 532 records overall. The period covered by the series goes from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at some summary statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded a minimum of 0 contracts on 29 December 2015; they hit a peak of 720 on 26 September 2017; they had a mean of 68.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 300.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 300.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 215.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in aluminum 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: ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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