COT reports: Long 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), long positions held by swap dealers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 16,540 contracts on 27 January 2026, compared to 16,217 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 records overall in the weekly series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to 7,935 contracts; they reached a trough of 311 on 1 April 2008; they peaked at 25,508 on 12 July 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 15439.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 16217.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 16540.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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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