COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 8,271 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 6,378 on 9 June.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 554 observations. The time span covered by the series goes from October 2015 to June 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 2,962 contracts on 13 October 2015; they reached their maximum of 18,525 on 29 September 2020; they had a mean of 8,900.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 5703.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 6378.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 8271.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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