COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 10,965 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 10,309 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the chart has 532 observations overall. The series covers the time range going from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 2,962 contracts on 13 October 2015; they peaked at 19,003 on 29 September 2020; they averaged 10,456.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 12151.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 10309.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 10965.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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