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 15,615 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 15,978 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 records in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions recorded a minimum of 4,675 contracts on 6 September 2022; they hit a peak of 44,022 on 29 July 2014; they had a mean value of 20,445.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 14379.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 15978.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 15615.0 |
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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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