COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 69 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 9 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 537 observations overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time period extending from October 2015 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of -243 contracts; they reached their lowest level of -3,206 on 27 May 2025; they reached their maximum of 3,525 on 25 April 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | -36.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 9.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 69.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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