COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 26,731 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 25,647 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 534 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series is from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 27,431 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 37,526 on 28 July 2020; they reached a minimum of 17,707 on 6 October 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 24769.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 25647.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 26731.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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