COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 4,353 contracts on 13 January 2026, compared to 3,623 on 6 January 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,023 observations in total. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 3,950 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 0 on 3 October 2023; they recorded a maximum of 17,261 on 16 September 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-30 | 3271.0 |
| 2026-01-06 | 3623.0 |
| 2026-01-13 | 4353.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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