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 -120 contracts on 15 September 2026, versus -109 on 8 September.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the graph has 567 data points overall. The series covers the time span extending from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of -766 contracts on 13 June 2017; they hit a peak of 528 on 30 June 2020; they had an average value of -43.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | -114.000 |
| 2026-09-08 | -109.000 |
| 2026-09-15 | -120.000 |
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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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