COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 396 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 381 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 534 data points. The series covers the time period stretching from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 570 contracts; they attained a maximum of 3,525 on 25 April 2017; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 26 November 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 326.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 381.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 396.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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