COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 3,355 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 2,826 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 1,045 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 639 contracts; they hit a peak of 6,264 on 16 September 2025; they reached a minimum of 0 on 6 December 2011.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 4708.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 2826.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 3355.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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