COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 327 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 477 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series plotted above, there are 532 data points. The series covers the span of time extending from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 292 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 1,225 on 29 July 2025; they reached their minimum of 0 on 29 December 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 423.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 477.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 327.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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