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" were 62,063 contracts on 15 September 2026, compared to 64,226 on 8 September.
Sample. There are 1,058 data points in the weekly time series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 5,657 contracts on 24 October 2006; they achieved a maximum of 103,459 on 21 January 2020; they had a mean value of 54,902.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | 64,567.0 |
| 2026-09-08 | 64,226.0 |
| 2026-09-15 | 62,063.0 |
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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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