Platinum: Commitments of Traders

CFTC positions as of the close on 13 October 2026. PLATINUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE, contracts of 50 troy ounces.

Speculators net long12,613

Change on the week−1,028

Rank in 2 years15th

Open interest70,934

This week

In the week to 13 October 2026, non-commercial traders in Platinum held a net long position of 12,613 contracts. That is 1,028 contracts fewer than a week earlier. Commercial traders were net short 16,029, which is the other side of the same market. A year ago the speculative net was long 18,525, so it has moved by 5,912 contracts since. Longs were 65.7% of speculative positions. 222 traders reported.

Bar charts in detail

1. Who is long and who is short, in the week to 13 October 2026

Short positions extend to the left in red, long positions to the right in blue, each scaled against the biggest single side in this market. Percentages are of open interest.

Non-commercial (speculators) net +12,613

13,758 19.4% 26,371 37.2%

Commercial (producers, hedgers) net −16,029

37,226 52.5% 21,197 29.9%

Non-reportable (small traders) net +3,414

3,113 4.4% 6,527 9.2%

2. How the week's change was made

Change in each side since the previous report, as published by the CFTC. A rising net can come from longs being added, shorts being closed, or both; this shows which.

Non-commercial long −1,062

Non-commercial short −34

Commercial long +1,682

Commercial short +180

Open interest +2,063

3. Speculative net position, week by week

Last 52 weeks. Blue bars are net long, red bars net short. Hover a bar for the week and the value.

4. Weekly change in the speculative net

Blue bars: speculators added to their net position that week. Red bars: they reduced it. Tall bars of either colour are the unusual weeks.

5. Open interest, week by week

Total contracts outstanding. Rising open interest means money is entering the contract; falling means positions are being closed.

Where each group sits against its own year

0 means a group is at its most net short of the last 52 weeks, 100 at its most net long. It says where positioning is, not what price does next.

Commercials (producers, hedgers) the group classic COT analysis calls "smart money"

94 net −16,029 (−22.6% of OI)

Near its most net long of the year.

Speculators (funds, managed money) trend-following money with no commercial business in it

16 net +12,613 (+17.8% of OI)

In the bottom quarter of its range.

Small traders (non-reportable) the group classic analysis calls "dumb money"

1 net +3,414 (+4.8% of OI)

At its most net short of the year.

Who holds what

Trader category	Long	Short	Net	Week change (long)
Non-commercial (speculators)	26,371	13,758	+12,613	−1,062
Commercial (producers, hedgers)	21,197	37,226	−16,029	+1,682
Non-reportable (small traders)	6,527	3,113	+3,414	–
Non-commercial spreading	16,838 on both sides		0	–

Spreading is a speculator holding an equal long and short in different months, so it nets to zero and is listed apart. The three net figures should sum to zero, because a futures market cannot be net long or net short overall, only differently distributed between the people in it. In the Commission's published figures they occasionally miss by a contract or two: for the week shown the three nets sum to -2. That is rounding in the source, not an error on this page, and we leave the CFTC's numbers as published rather than adjusting one to make the column balance.

The last two years

Speculative net position in Platinum, Oct 2024 to Oct 2026. Above the line is net long, below it net short.

Week	Spec net	Change	Long share	Open interest
13 Oct 2026	+12,613	−1,028	65.7%	70,934
6 Oct 2026	+13,641	+320	66.5%	68,871
29 Sep 2026	+13,322	−2,391	66.4%	66,857
22 Sep 2026	+15,713	+302	70.6%	67,939
15 Sep 2026	+15,412	−437	70.9%	69,050
8 Sep 2026	+15,848	+1,208	71.4%	71,342
1 Sep 2026	+14,640	−496	70.5%	71,359
25 Aug 2026	+15,136	+2,735	69.8%	68,085
18 Aug 2026	+12,401	−692	68.3%	63,929
11 Aug 2026	+13,093	−1,223	69.8%	60,600
4 Aug 2026	+14,315	+3,529	72.8%	59,444
28 Jul 2026	+10,787	−863	67.8%	56,185
21 Jul 2026	+11,649	−1,016	68.9%	56,035
14 Jul 2026	+12,665	−262	70.8%	56,768
7 Jul 2026	+12,927	−1,035	70.7%	56,570
30 Jun 2026	+13,962	−296	70.5%	56,895

Across the 104 weeks held, the speculative net ranged from -2,503 to 37,588, averaging 17,230. This week's 12,613 sits at the 15th percentile of that range. Two years is a short window, and a position that looks far from its recent average can stay there for months. It describes where positioning has been, not where price goes.

What this report is, and what it is not

The CFTC requires anyone holding more than a set number of contracts in a US futures market to report their position. Every Friday afternoon the Commission publishes the totals as they stood at Tuesday's close, split by the kind of trader holding them. The gap between Tuesday and Friday is deliberate and cannot be shortened: the figures are always three days old when you first see them.

Non-commercial traders have no commercial use for the underlying. Commercial traders do: a miner selling forward, an airline hedging fuel, a mill buying wheat. Non-reportable is everybody below the reporting threshold. The categories describe why someone is registered, not how clever they are, and the common framing of commercials as "smart money" does not follow from the data: a producer hedging output sells into a rising market because that is their business, not because they predict a fall.

Nothing on this page is a signal. Positioning shows how crowded a trade was on a particular Tuesday. It does not say when a crowd disperses, and crowded positions have stayed crowded for many months at a time in most of these markets.

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Source: CFTC Commitments of Traders, legacy futures-only report, contract market code 076651. Net positions, long share and the two-year rank are our arithmetic on the Commission's published figures; every input is in the tables above. Educational only, not financial advice.