COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 10,929 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 10,480 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 532 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time span covered by the series stretches from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 9,415 contracts; they registered a minimum of 3,217 on 7 September 2021; they reached their highest level of 17,181 on 31 December 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 11190.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 10480.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 10929.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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