COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 2,950 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 2,915 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 569 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The time period covered by the series is from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 6,169 contracts; they reached a trough of 155 on 22 October 2019; they reached their highest level of 15,024 on 28 February 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2925.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 2915.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 2950.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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