COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders 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 other reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 21,242 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 22,732 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 1,023 records. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a minimum of 168 contracts on 26 December 2006; they hit a maximum of 27,106 on 10 April 2018; they averaged 11,954.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 25485.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 22732.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 21242.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other reporting traders 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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