COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 13,888 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 13,598 on 8 September 2026.
Sample. There are 567 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The period covered by the series extends from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 8,977 contracts; they reached a trough of 2,962 on 13 October 2015; they reached their highest level of 18,525 on 29 September 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 13,430.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 13,598.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 13,888.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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