COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 3,181 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 3,714 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,023 observations overall. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 12,877 contracts on 26 June 2018; they registered a minimum of 89 on 21 September 2010; they had a mean value of 3,676.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 3987.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 3714.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 3181.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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