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Platinum Futures (NYMEX) — what the record actually shows

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$1,794

What Platinum Futures (NYMEX) actually is

A dated NYMEX contract on platinum, not today's metal price. Professional instrument; most people get platinum exposure via a fund.

Platinum Futures (NYMEX) price chart

daily · live

Chart shows the spot price. Free chart feeds do not carry the dated contract, so the numbers on this page are calculated from the futures contract itself while the chart tracks the same underlying — they move together, with the contract normally a little higher.

The bottom line

Of 1,005 past one-year holding periods for Platinum Futures (NYMEX), 67% ended in profit. In the typical case $100 became $107. The worst year on record was -19.5% and the best was +197.9%. It scores 30/100 on our risk scale, which we call low — that is relative to the other assets on this site, not a judgement that it is safe.

Where Platinum Futures (NYMEX) stands right now

plain English
  • Platinum Futures (NYMEX) is down 1.51% over the past week, up 1.84% over a month and up 28.53% over a year.
  • It is trading ABOVE its 200-day average, which is the simplest definition of a long-term uptrend.
  • Momentum is neutral (RSI 50.3): no rush in either direction.
  • Against its own recent range it sits at 39% — the cheaper half.

This describes what has already happened. It is not a forecast, and it is not advice.

What Platinum Futures (NYMEX) moves with

measured over 90 days

Nothing moves alone. These are the relationships we can actually measure from our own daily prices — −1 means they move in exact opposite directions, 0 means unrelated, +1 means they move together. A relationship holding today can break tomorrow.

The S&P 500 (US shares) — tends to move with it
When shares are rising people feel safe and reach for risk; when they fall, money looks for somewhere to hide. That is why the relationship between shares and a safe-haven asset is worth watching.
+0.39
correlation
Crude oil — tends to move against it
Energy is the biggest single input to inflation, and inflation is one of the main reasons people buy gold.
-0.27
correlation
The US dollar — barely related right now
Gold, oil and most commodities are priced in dollars. When the dollar weakens, the same ounce costs more dollars — so the price rises without anything changing about the metal itself.
+0.17
correlation
Bitcoin — barely related right now
Often called "digital gold". Whether the two actually move together is an argument — so here is the measurement rather than the opinion.
+0.08
correlation

What to watch — what could push it up or down

context, not a measurement
Interest rates and the Fed
Gold pays you nothing to hold it. When savings accounts and government bonds pay high interest, holding gold costs you that income, and gold usually struggles. When rates fall, that cost disappears and gold usually does better. Rate decisions are the single biggest scheduled event for gold.
Inflation
Gold is bought as protection against money losing value. High or rising inflation tends to increase demand — though the link is far looser year to year than people assume.
Central banks buying
Country central banks have been large net buyers of gold in recent years. This is steady, price-insensitive demand and it does not show up in any chart until after the fact.
War, crisis and elections
Gold is the classic panic asset. Sudden jumps very often trace to a geopolitical event rather than anything financial.
The dollar
Priced in dollars worldwide, so dollar strength and gold usually pull in opposite directions.

These are the forces that historically matter for this kind of asset. We are not claiming any of them is acting today — that is a judgement no honest site can make from a price chart alone.

Latest news

this market

Headlines come from public news feeds. We do not claim any of them caused a price move — that link is far easier to assert than to prove.

Learn to read Platinum Futures (NYMEX) — step by step

basic → advanced

Work down in order. Each step explains one idea, then shows you what it says about Platinum Futures (NYMEX) today. No jargon is used before it is explained.

  1. 1
    What you are actually looking at

    A dated NYMEX contract on platinum, not today's metal price. Professional instrument; most people get platinum exposure via a fund.

    Right now: $1,794.

  2. 2
    How to read a candle

    Each candle on the chart is one day. The thick body runs from where the day opened to where it closed; the thin wicks above and below show the highest and lowest prices reached during that day. Green means it closed higher than it opened, red means lower. A long wick means a price was reached and rejected — someone pushed, and the other side pushed back harder.

    Found on Platinum Futures (NYMEX) recently:

    Doji on 9 Sep 2026 — Open and close almost identical — buyers and sellers finished the day level. Indecision. On this asset it has appeared 38 times, and 5 days later the price was higher 66% of the time versus 53% on any random day — so here it has actually meant something.

    Shooting star on 28 Aug 2026 — Rallied during the day then gave it all back. Buyers tried and failed. On this asset it has appeared 16 times, and 5 days later the price was higher 69% of the time versus 53% on any random day — so here it has actually meant something.

  3. 3
    Is it in an uptrend or a downtrend?

    The simplest honest answer is the 200-day average — the average closing price of the last 200 days. Above it, the last year of buyers are mostly in profit and the trend is up. Below it, they are not. It is slow on purpose: it ignores noise.

    Platinum Futures (NYMEX) is trading ABOVE its 200-day average.

  4. 4
    Has it moved too far, too fast?

    RSI scores the speed of recent moves from 0 to 100. Above 70 is called "overbought" — it has risen fast. Below 30 is "oversold". Neither is a signal to act: things that are rising fast often keep rising. It is a description, not an instruction.

    Today: RSI 50.3 (neutral).

  5. 5
    Is it cheap or expensive compared with itself?

    Take the highest and lowest price of the last few months and see where today sits between them. Near the bottom is "cheap" only relative to that range — a falling asset makes new lows all the way down. It answers "where am I", not "what next".

    Today sits at 28% of its 252-day range.

  6. 6
    Does any of this actually work here?

    This is the step almost every site skips. A signal is only useful if it beats what happens anyway. If an asset rose in 60% of all two-week periods, a signal that is "right 60% of the time" told you precisely nothing. We test every signal on this asset's own history and print the comparison — including when the answer is embarrassing.

    See "Have these signals actually worked" further down this page.

  7. 7
    What could move it that is not on the chart

    Price reacts to the world: interest rates, inflation, wars, regulation, company results. A chart records what already happened; it cannot tell you what is scheduled next week.

    See "What to watch" above for the forces that matter for this asset.

  8. 8
    Advanced: market structure

    Once the basics are comfortable, traders read the chart as a sequence of higher highs and higher lows (or the reverse), and watch where price broke that sequence. That is what our Smart Money view measures — structure breaks, the fair-value midpoint, and levels where large orders were likely filled. It is a way of reading a chart, not a law.

  9. 9
    The only rule that always applies

    Nothing above predicts anything. Size any position so that being completely wrong is survivable, and never put in money you cannot afford to lose. Everything on this page is a record of the past, published to help you think — not advice to buy or sell.

Where today sits 28% of 252-day range

If you had put $100 in — every past year

1,005 periods · from 1,257 days of prices
67% of one-year holding periods ended in profit. Every trading day is a starting point; we count what the next year did. This is history, not a forecast.
Bad year$91-8.7% · 1 in 10 worse
Typical$107+6.8% · median
Good year$193+92.7% · 1 in 10 better
74 -20%
253 -10%
260 0%
123 10%
17 20%
53 30%
41 40%
33 50%
16 60%
21 70%
8 80%
18 90%
26 100%
19 110%
14 120%
8 130%
9 140%
12 150%+

Each bar counts how many one-year periods finished in that range. Red is a loss, green is a gain. Fees and spread are not included.

Risk score

30
low on our scale
out of 100 · 2 factors
Volatility 26
Track record 33

Higher means more can go wrong. This is not advice to buy or sell. Built from 2 factors — volatility, track record — and anything we cannot measure is left out rather than guessed. Compare it with care: coins are scored on up to six factors including supply, fall from peak, size and liquidity, so a low number here is a thinner claim than the same number on a coin. A low score does not mean safe — this page's own worst year is the better guide to that.

What the chart says today

RSI 1450.3 NEUTRAL vs upper band-6.2% MACDFALLING Volume0× 30-DAY AVG 200-day trendABOVE

We calculate these on our own server from 1,257 days of prices, so the figures on this page are the same ones our assistant is given. Nothing is read off a picture.

Have these signals actually worked on Platinum Futures (NYMEX)?

tested on its own history
RSI > 70 → price lower
Measured 14 days later. On any random day that happened 45% of the time, so this signal is only 7 points worse — effectively no edge.
38%
45 times
RSI < 30 → price higher
Measured 14 days later. On any random day that happened 54% of the time, so this signal is 28 points better than no signal at all. Only 17 occurrences — too few to rely on.
82%
17 times
Above upper Bollinger → price lower
Measured 14 days later. On any random day that happened 45% of the time, so this signal is 8 points better than no signal at all.
53%
96 times
Volume 2x average → move over 10%
Measured 14 days later. On any random day that happened 15% of the time, so this signal is 8 points better than no signal at all.
23%
124 times

Most sites show you a signal. We also show how often it was right, how often that would have happened anyway, and how many times it has ever occurred. A signal only tells you something when it beats the base rate by a clear margin — matching it means it told you nothing.

Smart Money view of Platinum Futures (NYMEX)

market structure · 90-day range

Traders who follow “Smart Money Concepts” read a chart as a record of where big orders were filled rather than as a set of indicators. Every level below is measured from our own daily candles, and the rule that produced it is written next to it — nothing here is drawn by eye.

StructureBULLISH ZoneDISCOUNT · 39% Last breakCHoCH UP
Premium or discount — is it expensive right now?
Over the last 90 days Platinum Futures (NYMEX) has traded between 1,530.7 and 2,197.6. Halfway — what SMC calls equilibrium, or fair value — is 1,864.15. Today's 1,793.5 sits at 39% of that range, which is the discount half: cheap relative to the recent range.
39%
of range
Change of Character (CHoCH) — upward
On 9 Sep 2026 the price closed above 1,887.9, the last swing high. That was the first break against the prevailing direction, which is what SMC calls a change of character — the earliest hint that a trend may be turning. It is a hint, not a confirmation.
CHoCH
9 Sep 2026
Liquidity sweep above a prior high
On 28 Aug 2026 the price pushed through 1,887.3 during the day but closed back below it. In plain words: the level was touched, the orders sitting there were filled, and the move did not hold. Traders call this a stop hunt. It is only ever visible after the fact.
1,887.3
level swept
Bullish order block
The last down candle before that break was on 28 Aug 2026, covering 1,847.6–1,887.9. SMC treats that band as where large orders were likely filled, and watches whether price reacts if it returns there. Treat it as a zone of interest, not a prediction.
1,847.6
to 1,887.9
Fair value gap (unfilled)
A gap is three days where the first day's range and the third day's range never overlap — the price moved so fast it skipped a band of prices. SMC expects those bands to be revisited. Nearest gap below: 1,759.8–1,821 (from 3 Sep 2026). Nearest gap above: 1,793.5–1,904.2 (from 10 Sep 2026).
GAP
unfilled
Has the cheap half actually led anywhere on Platinum Futures (NYMEX)?
We tested the idea on this asset's own history: every past day where it sat in the discount half, checked 14 days later. From discount, price was higher 60% of the time (485 occasions). From premium, 49% (420 occasions). On any random day it was higher 54% of the time — that is the number both must beat to mean anything. The difference is small enough to be noise on this asset.
60%
from discount

Smart Money Concepts is a way of reading a chart, not a law of markets, and it has no academic backing. We show it because a lot of people trade by it and deserve to see it measured rather than preached. None of this is advice, and levels are computed from daily candles only.

How Platinum Futures (NYMEX) compares

$100 · one year · same maths
Commodity Bad year Typical Good year Ended in profit
Platinum Futures (NYMEX) (this page) $91 $107 $193 67%
Gold Spot (per ounce) $104 $129 $143 95%
Gold Futures (COMEX) $101 $124 $152 91%
Silver Futures (COMEX) $96 $124 $217 86%
Crude Oil Futures (WTI) $75 $93 $124 36%
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Common questions about Platinum Futures (NYMEX)

answered from this page's figures

What is Platinum Futures (NYMEX)?

A dated NYMEX contract on platinum, not today's metal price. Professional instrument; most people get platinum exposure via a fund.

Has Platinum Futures (NYMEX) been profitable to hold for a year?

Across 1,005 past one-year holding periods, 67% ended in profit. The typical one-year outcome was +6.8%, the worst on record was -19.5% and the best was +197.9%. In money terms $100 typically became $107. This is a record of what already happened, not a forecast.

If I had invested $100 in Platinum Futures (NYMEX), what would have happened?

Taking every past starting day and holding for a year, the typical result turned $100 into $107. A bad year (the worst tenth) left $91 and a good year (the best tenth) $193.

How risky is Platinum Futures (NYMEX)?

Platinum Futures (NYMEX) scores 30 out of 100 on our risk scale, which we call low. That is relative to the other assets on this site, not a judgement that it is safe. The heaviest single factor is track record. Higher means more can go wrong. Nothing here is advice to buy or sell.

Is Platinum Futures (NYMEX) expensive or cheap right now?

Compared with its own recent history, Platinum Futures (NYMEX) sits at 28% of its 252-day range. Near the bottom is only "cheap" relative to that range — a falling asset makes new lows all the way down. It answers where it is, not what happens next.

Does RSI > 70 work on Platinum Futures (NYMEX)?

We tested it on Platinum Futures (NYMEX)'s own history. After RSI > 70, price lower happened 38% of the time within 14 days, across 45 occurrences. On any random day it happened 45% of the time, so on this asset the signal told you nothing.

Does RSI < 30 work on Platinum Futures (NYMEX)?

We tested it on Platinum Futures (NYMEX)'s own history. After RSI < 30, price higher happened 82% of the time within 14 days, across 17 occurrences. On any random day it happened 54% of the time, so on this asset the signal has genuinely meant something.

What moves the price of Platinum Futures (NYMEX)?

The forces that historically matter most are: Interest rates and the Fed, Inflation, Central banks buying, War, crisis and elections. Measured over the last 90 days, Platinum Futures (NYMEX) tends to move with it the S&P 500 (US shares) (correlation 0.39).

Ask about Platinum Futures (NYMEX)

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Answers are built from the same figures shown on this page. No question is too basic.

Not financial advice. We explain the figures; the decision is always yours.

What this page is, and is not. Every figure here is either a fact as of today or a count of what has already happened to Platinum Futures (NYMEX). Nothing on this page is a prediction, and none of it is advice to buy or sell. Past behaviour is not a promise about the future.

One caveat worth understanding. The holding periods we count start on every trading day, so they overlap heavily — yesterday's year and today's year share all but one day. That means they are not 1,005 independent experiments; a single long run up or down colours a great many of them at once. It is an honest picture of what holding this asset felt like, not a sample you can do statistics on. We do not show unlock dates, because the data source for them is not something we can verify for free, and we would rather leave a gap than guess. Buzdy is free to compare and does not take a commission on anything you do next.