COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 12,522 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 12,674 on 11 August.
Sample. In the weekly series plotted above, there are 1,054 data points in total. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 3,059 contracts on 13 June 2006; they recorded their maximum of 47,106 on 14 January 2020; they had a mean value of 23,286.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 12435.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 12674.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 12522.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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