COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 71 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 56 on 20 January.
Sample. The weekly series shown in the graph has 534 data points in total. The span of time covered by the series is from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 3,525 contracts on 25 April 2017; they recorded a minimum of -3,206 on 27 May 2025; they had an average value of -244.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 1.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 56.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 71.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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