COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 6,772 contracts on 13 January 2026, versus 6,609 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. There are 1,023 data points in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Take a look at a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 3,880 contracts; they hit a minimum of 630 on 16 July 2013; they attained a maximum of 21,669 on 6 August 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 7479.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 6609.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 6772.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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