COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 56,542 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 53,460 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In the weekly time series shown in the plot, there are 1,054 records. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 54,871 contracts; they hit a minimum of 5,657 on 24 October 2006; they hit a peak of 103,459 on 21 January 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 52288.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 53460.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 56542.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders 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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