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 7,155 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 6,977 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 563 observations in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The time period covered by the series is from October 2015 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a trough of 3,217 contracts on 7 September 2021; they hit a maximum of 17,181 on 31 December 2018; they had an average value of 9,414.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 6752.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 6977.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 7155.0 |
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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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