COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 1,030 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 868 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 550 records overall in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span extending from October 2015 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions peaked at 1,640 contracts on 11 July 2017; they reached their minimum of 0 on 18 April 2017; they had an average value of 267.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 878.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 868.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 1030.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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