COT reports: Long positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 164 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 109 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 537 data points overall in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The period covered by the series is from October 2015 to February 2026.
History. Check out some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 196 contracts; they hit a trough of 0 on 30 July 2019; they hit a peak of 643 on 19 December 2023.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 117.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 109.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 164.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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