COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in aluminum futures of the kind "ALUMINUM MW US TR PLATTS - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 6,447 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 6,280 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 534 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The time period covered by the series is from October 2015 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 7,345 contracts on 25 February 2025; they reached a trough of 0 on 27 September 2016; they were equal on average to 1,462.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 6122.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 6280.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 6447.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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