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 4,843 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 4,741 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has 532 observations in total. The span of time covered by the series is from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 9,012 contracts; they hit a minimum of 2,962 on 13 October 2015; they recorded their maximum of 18,525 on 29 September 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 5746.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 4741.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 4843.0 |
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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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