COT reports: Net long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -206 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to -88 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 567 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the span of time extending from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 5,129 contracts; they hit a peak of 14,734 on 28 February 2017; they reached their lowest level of -3,645 on 27 January 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 21.0000 |
| 2026-09-08 | -88.0000 |
| 2026-09-15 | -206.000 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other 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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