COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,952 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 2,609 on 6 January.
Sample. There are 1,023 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics computed on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 282 contracts on 4 December 2007; they recorded a maximum of 6,463 on 12 January 2016; they had a mean of 1,743.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 3007.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 2609.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 1952.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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