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 171 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 154 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 569 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time period going from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a minimum of 0 contracts on 30 July 2019; they recorded a maximum of 3,166 on 1 September 2026; they had a mean value of 197.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 153.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 154.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 171.0 |
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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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