COT reports: Compensated (spread) 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), compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 307 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 222 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had a mean of 360 contracts; they hit a trough of 0 on 28 December 2021; they peaked at 2,279 on 18 November 2014.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 694.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 222.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 307.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) 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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