COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at -151 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to -59 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 563 data points in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time period stretching from October 2015 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged -42 contracts; they hit a peak of 528 on 30 June 2020; they reached a trough of -766 on 13 June 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -85.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -59.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -151.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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