COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 24,769 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 23,915 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 532 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period extending from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions achieved a maximum of 37,526 contracts on 28 July 2020; they registered a minimum of 17,707 on 6 October 2015; they averaged 27,436.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 26941.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 23915.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 24769.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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