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" were 7,390 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 6,256 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series goes from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 3,324 contracts; they recorded their maximum of 13,609 on 7 October 2025; they reached a trough of 0 on 21 November 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 6120.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 6256.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 7390.0 |
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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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