COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 18,813 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 19,980 on 12 May.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,041 records overall. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 57,533 contracts on 28 January 2020; they reached their lowest level of 2,312 on 12 December 2006; they were equal on average to 23,538.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 17356.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 19980.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 18813.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by money managers 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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