COT reports: Net long positions held by non-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), net long positions held by non-reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -144 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to -337 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 532 observations in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The span of time covered by the series extends from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 528 contracts on 30 June 2020; they recorded a minimum of -766 on 13 June 2017; they had a mean of -33.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -298.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -337.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -144.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-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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