COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 4,809 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 4,103 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 532 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the span of time stretching from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 4,809 contracts on 13 January 2026; they registered a minimum of 0 on 17 November 2015; they averaged 873.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 4289.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 4103.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 4809.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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