COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by swap dealers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -8,792 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to -10,408 on 12 May.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the figure, there are 1,041 observations in total. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of -33,777 contracts on 28 January 2020; they reached a maximum of 19,157 on 6 September 2022; they had a mean of -4,172.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | -8387.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | -10408.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | -8792.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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