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 12,200 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 12,501 on 12 May.
Sample. This weekly time series has 550 data points. The series covers the time period stretching from October 2015 to May 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 19,003 contracts on 29 September 2020; they reached their minimum of 2,962 on 13 October 2015; they were equal on average to 10,526.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 11937.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 12501.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 12200.0 |
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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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