COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 24,012 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 22,952 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 records in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 12,019 contracts; they reached a minimum of 848 on 24 October 2006; they peaked at 43,996 on 28 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 21914.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 22952.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 24012.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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