COT reports: Short 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), short positions held by money managers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 10,870 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 9,262 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,060 data points. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions registered a minimum of 72 contracts on 26 August 2008; they achieved a maximum of 50,526 on 5 March 2024; they had an average value of 12,437.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 8732.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 9262.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 10870.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short 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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