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" were 2,263 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 2,389 on 12 May.
Sample. The weekly series presented in the plot has 1,041 records overall. The time span covered by the series is from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Check out a few simple statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions registered a minimum of 89 contracts on 21 September 2010; they attained a maximum of 12,877 on 26 June 2018; they averaged 3,663.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 2365.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 2389.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 2263.0 |
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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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