COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 22,920 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 23,592 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 43,996 contracts on 28 January 2020; they reached a minimum of 848 on 24 October 2006; they averaged 12,418.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 24103.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 23592.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 22920.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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