COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by money managers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 325 contracts on 27 January 2026, as on 20 January.
Sample. There are 534 records overall in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the time range stretching from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 814 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 3,206 on 27 May 2025; they reached their minimum of 0 on 3 October 2017.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 325.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 325.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 325.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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