COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by producers and merchants in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 18,414 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 18,929 on 6 January.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 1,023 records. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean of 23,530 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 3,059 on 13 June 2006; they reached their highest level of 47,106 on 14 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 20129.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 18929.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 18414.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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