COT reports: Long positions held by all 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 56,831 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 57,550 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a minimum of 5,146 contracts on 5 December 2006; they hit a maximum of 94,973 on 28 January 2020; they averaged 50,624.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 57474.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 57550.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 56831.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all 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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