COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,644 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 1,441 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their maximum of 2,952 contracts on 29 October 2019; they reached a minimum of 9 on 1 May 2007; they had a mean value of 1,173.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 1606.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 1441.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 1644.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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