COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 1,489 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 1,534 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 532 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time span going from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their maximum of 15,024 contracts on 28 February 2017; they recorded a minimum of 155 on 22 October 2019; they were equal on average to 6,383.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 1972.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 1534.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1489.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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