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" stood at -11,071 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to -11,400 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,054 records. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of -19,642 contracts; they achieved a maximum of -1,655 on 12 August 2008; they reached their lowest level of -43,064 on 21 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -11155.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -11400.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -11071.0 |
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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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