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 12,515 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 11,708 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 records in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 57,533 contracts on 28 January 2020; they recorded a bottom of 2,312 on 12 December 2006; they had a mean value of 23,611.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 13519.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 11708.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 12515.0 |
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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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