COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 1 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to -113 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 532 observations in total. The period covered by the series is from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of -3,206 contracts on 27 May 2025; they recorded a maximum of 3,525 on 25 April 2017; they had a mean value of -245.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -74.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -113.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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