COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 74,285 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 74,853 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,023 records. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 5,657 contracts on 24 October 2006; they recorded a maximum of 103,459 on 21 January 2020; they had a mean value of 54,724.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 78546.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 74853.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 74285.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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