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 21,847 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 21,365 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 569 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The time period covered by the series stretches from October 2015 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 23,227 contracts; they reached a minimum of 12,202 on 6 January 2026; they achieved a maximum of 35,635 on 28 February 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 21053.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 21365.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 21847.0 |
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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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