COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 518 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 603 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 532 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span stretching from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 252 contracts; they hit a peak of 1,640 on 11 July 2017; they reached their minimum of 0 on 29 December 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 604.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 603.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 518.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders 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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