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 100 contracts on 31 March 2026, as on 24 March.
Sample. In the weekly time series presented in the figure, there are 543 data points. The series covers the period stretching from October 2015 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a minimum of 0 contracts on 3 October 2017; they recorded their highest level of 3,206 on 27 May 2025; they were equal on average to 804.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 100.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 100.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 100.0 |
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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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