COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by producers and merchants in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 3,973 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 3,312 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the period going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Have a look at a few simple statistics calculated on the full sample: positions had an average value of 3,676 contracts; they reached their minimum of 89 on 21 September 2010; they attained a maximum of 12,877 on 26 June 2018.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 3181.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 3312.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 3973.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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