COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by non-reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 221 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 210 on 10 February.
Sample. In the weekly time series presented in the graph, there are 537 records in total. The time period covered by the series stretches from October 2015 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 230 contracts; they hit a minimum of 0 on 10 September 2024; they attained a maximum of 944 on 13 June 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 250.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 210.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 221.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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