COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 1,862 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 1,875 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 9,556 contracts; they reached a trough of 256 on 5 September 2023; they reached their maximum of 25,191 on 12 November 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 1449.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 1875.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 1862.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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