COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 17,919 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 17,438 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the plot has 569 records overall. The period covered by the series goes from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions reached a minimum of 2,962 contracts on 13 October 2015; they hit a maximum of 19,003 on 29 September 2020; they had a mean of 10,694.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 17043.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 17438.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 17919.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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