COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 11,634 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 12,740 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,023 data points overall. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 12,615 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 50,526 on 5 March 2024; they reached a minimum of 72 on 26 August 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 14846.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 12740.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 11634.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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