COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 1,626 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 1,692 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions averaged 1,500 contracts; they reached their highest level of 6,108 on 25 February 2014; they reached their minimum of 138 on 15 September 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1551.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1692.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1626.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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