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 23,624 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 23,637 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,054 records. The series covers the span of time going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 43,996 contracts on 28 January 2020; they hit a minimum of 848 on 24 October 2006; they were equal on average to 12,353.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 22990.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 23637.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 23624.0 |
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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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