COT reports: Long positions held by money managers in platinum futures: PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Platinum 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 platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 17,704 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 18,167 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 2,312 contracts on 12 December 2006; they reached a maximum of 57,533 on 28 January 2020; they had a mean value of 23,418.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 17,263.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 18,167.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 17,704.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers in platinum 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: "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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