COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 7,913 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 8,345 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 554 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from October 2015 to June 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 3,217 contracts on 7 September 2021; they hit a maximum of 17,181 on 31 December 2018; they had a mean of 9,444.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 8314.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 8345.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 7913.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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