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." stood at 17,352 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 16,169 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 563 data points in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from October 2015 to August 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 2,962 contracts on 13 October 2015; they hit a peak of 19,003 on 29 September 2020; they had an average value of 10,625.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 16159.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 16169.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 17352.0 |
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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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