COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 14,437 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 13,634 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 537 records in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The period covered by the series stretches from October 2015 to February 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 23,565 contracts; they hit a maximum of 35,635 on 28 February 2017; they registered a minimum of 12,202 on 6 January 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 13310.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 13634.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 14437.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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