COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 570 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 505 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 534 records in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time range stretching from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions recorded a bottom of 0 contracts on 18 April 2017; they reached a maximum of 1,640 on 11 July 2017; they had a mean value of 253.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 518.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 505.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 570.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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