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" stood at 16,583 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 17,499 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 records in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions peaked at 47,106 contracts on 14 January 2020; they reached a trough of 3,059 on 13 June 2006; they had a mean value of 23,412.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 16629.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 17499.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 16583.0 |
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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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