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" stood at 15,402 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 15,103 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the graph, there are a total of 1,054 records. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out some statistics calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 23,439 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 2,312 on 12 December 2006; they reached a maximum of 57,533 on 28 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 16877.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 15103.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 15402.0 |
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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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