COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 16,970 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 15,307 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had a mean value of 20,365 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 44,022 on 29 July 2014; they reached their lowest level of 4,675 on 6 September 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 15193.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 15307.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 16970.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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