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" stood at 8,188 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 7,385 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,054 observations overall. The series covers the time range extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions had a mean value of 12,456 contracts; they achieved a maximum of 50,526 on 5 March 2024; they hit a minimum of 72 on 26 August 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 5917.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 7385.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 8188.0 |
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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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