COT reports: Long positions held by non-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), long positions held by non-reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 2,434 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 2,139 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 data points in the weekly time series shown in the figure above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions recorded a maximum of 4,690 contracts on 4 March 2008; they reached their minimum of 825 on 5 July 2022; they averaged 2,045.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 2227.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 2139.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 2434.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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