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 15,941 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 15,563 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,034 records. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 3,059 contracts on 13 June 2006; they attained a maximum of 47,106 on 14 January 2020; they had a mean value of 23,456.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 16354.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 15563.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 15941.0 |
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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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