COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by money managers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 13,334 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 16,111 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 11,013 contracts; they attained a maximum of 51,712 on 28 January 2020; they hit a minimum of -30,389 on 4 September 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 12372.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 16111.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 13334.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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