COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 7,335 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 8,286 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,041 data points overall. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 27,106 contracts on 10 April 2018; they recorded a minimum of 168 on 26 December 2006; they had a mean of 11,969.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 9312.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 8286.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 7335.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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