COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 27,985 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 27,647 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 550 records in total. The period covered by the series stretches from October 2015 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 27,440 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 37,526 on 28 July 2020; they recorded a bottom of 17,707 on 6 October 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 26904.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 27647.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 27985.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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