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 7,034 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 6,646 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the plot, there are 1,041 data points in total. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Check out some statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 3,919 contracts; they hit a trough of 630 on 16 July 2013; they recorded a maximum of 21,669 on 6 August 2024.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 6566.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 6646.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 7034.0 |
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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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