COT reports: Net 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), net long positions held by producers and merchants in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were -2,666 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to -2,697 on 10 February 2026.
Sample. There are 1,028 records overall in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The time span covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some descriptive statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions were equal on average to -8,236 contracts; they reached their minimum of -23,838 on 20 August 2013; they reached their highest level of 4,044 on 13 February 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | -3162.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | -2697.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | -2666.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net 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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