COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 30,907 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 30,399 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the figure has 569 records in total. The time span covered by the series extends from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 27,446 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 37,900 on 30 June 2020; they reached their lowest level of 17,824 on 6 October 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 29645.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 30399.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 30907.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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