COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 5,056 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 5,084 on 10 February.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 1,028 data points. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean value of 3,889 contracts; they reached their lowest level of 630 on 16 July 2013; they achieved a maximum of 21,669 on 6 August 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 5364.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 5084.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 5056.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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