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" stood at 22,758 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 22,347 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. There are 1,034 records overall in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 12,135 contracts; they reached their maximum of 43,996 on 28 January 2020; they hit a trough of 848 on 24 October 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 23510.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 22347.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 22758.0 |
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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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