COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 17,138 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 16,623 on 11 August.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the figure has 1,054 observations. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 8,135 contracts; they reached a maximum of 25,508 on 12 July 2022; they reached a minimum of 311 on 1 April 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 15703.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 16623.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 17138.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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