COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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), net long positions held by other reporting traders in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 11,494 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 9,626 on 20 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,025 records in the weekly series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their highest level of 25,069 contracts on 25 June 2019; they hit a trough of -2,571 on 12 August 2008; they had an average value of 8,657.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 9729.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 9626.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 11494.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other reporting traders 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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