COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 3,574 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 3,613 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 563 data points overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time period covered by the series stretches from October 2015 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at some descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a minimum of 0 contracts on 5 April 2016; they hit a peak of 5,515 on 24 February 2026; they had a mean value of 1,039.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 3648.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 3613.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 3574.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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