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." stood at 3,192 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 3,062 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 563 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time period covered by the series is from October 2015 to August 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded a minimum of 155 contracts on 22 October 2019; they reached their highest level of 15,024 on 28 February 2017; they had a mean value of 6,204.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 3012.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 3062.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 3192.0 |
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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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