COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 1,065 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 1,031 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the graph has 554 records. The series covers the time range stretching from October 2015 to June 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of 1,225 contracts on 29 July 2025; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 5 December 2017; they had a mean of 304.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 1003.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 1031.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 1065.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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