COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 12,309 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 12,202 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 532 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series extends from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 12,202 contracts on 6 January 2026; they achieved a maximum of 35,635 on 28 February 2017; they had an average value of 23,658.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 14247.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 12202.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 12309.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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