COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Palladium 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 all reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 17,943 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 17,925 on 6 January.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 1,023 records. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 20,540 contracts; they registered a minimum of 4,675 on 6 September 2022; they hit a maximum of 44,022 on 29 July 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 19054.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 17925.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 17943.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders in palladium 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: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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