COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at -15,233 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus -15,215 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records overall in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged -19,853 contracts; they reached their minimum of -43,064 on 21 January 2020; they hit a peak of -1,655 on 12 August 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | -16142.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | -15215.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | -15233.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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