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" stood at 52,024 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 48,586 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 94,973 contracts on 28 January 2020; they hit a minimum of 5,146 on 5 December 2006; they had an average value of 50,580.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 48607.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 48586.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 52024.0 |
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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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