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." were -333 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to -415 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 550 records overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period stretching from October 2015 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions achieved a maximum of 528 contracts on 30 June 2020; they reached their lowest level of -766 on 13 June 2017; they had a mean of -39.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | -387.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | -415.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | -333.0 |
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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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