COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 159 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 269 on 11 August.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 563 records overall. The time range covered by the series stretches from October 2015 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 785 contracts; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 3 October 2017; they recorded their maximum of 3,206 on 27 May 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 248.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 269.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 159.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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