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COT reports: Short positions held by money managers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly

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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Palladium

Series Name Observations Start Date End Date
COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
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 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by money managers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by money managers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by other reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by other reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by other reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by other reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Short positions held by non-reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19
COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders in palladium futures: PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly 1041 2006-06-13 2026-05-19