COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 2,831 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 2,378 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 0 contracts on 21 November 2006; they attained a maximum of 13,609 on 7 October 2025; they had an average value of 3,328.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2298.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 2378.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 2831.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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