COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -12,631 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to -12,500 on 24 March.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,034 data points in total. The time period covered by the series is from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a maximum of -1,655 contracts on 12 August 2008; they recorded a bottom of -43,064 on 21 January 2020; they averaged -19,784.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | -13215.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | -12500.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | -12631.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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