COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 3,310 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 3,063 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 1,034 data points in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of 89 contracts on 21 September 2010; they reached their maximum of 12,877 on 26 June 2018; they averaged 3,672.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 3139.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 3063.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 3310.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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