COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in platinum futures of the kind "PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 13,221 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 12,925 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 observations overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 50,526 contracts on 5 March 2024; they registered a minimum of 72 on 26 August 2008; they averaged 12,616.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 11634.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 12925.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 13221.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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