COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 11,513 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 11,739 on 6 January.
Sample. The weekly time series shown in the chart has 1,023 records in total. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions were equal on average to 3,301 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 13,609 on 7 October 2025; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 21 November 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 11779.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 11739.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 11513.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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