COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 521 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 438 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 observations in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached a trough of 282 contracts on 4 December 2007; they peaked at 6,463 on 12 January 2016; they averaged 1,729.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 473.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 438.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 521.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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