COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 326 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 212 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 532 observations overall. The time range covered by the series extends from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 570 contracts; they hit a peak of 3,525 on 25 April 2017; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 24 December 2019.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 301.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 212.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 326.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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