COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 6,122 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 5,568 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 532 data points. The series covers the period stretching from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 1,443 contracts; they attained a maximum of 7,345 on 25 February 2025; they registered a minimum of 0 on 29 December 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 6405.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 5568.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 6122.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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