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" stood at 19,499 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 19,857 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The time period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 57,533 contracts on 28 January 2020; they registered a minimum of 2,312 on 12 December 2006; they had an average value of 23,656.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 19182.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 19857.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 19499.0 |
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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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