COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 24,625 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 23,578 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 532 observations in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series goes from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics computed on the whole sample: positions attained a maximum of 37,900 contracts on 30 June 2020; they reached a trough of 17,824 on 6 October 2015; they averaged 27,402.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 26643.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 23578.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 24625.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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