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" stood at 1,455 contracts on 16 June 2026, versus 1,660 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,045 records overall. The series covers the time period going from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions reached their minimum of 256 contracts on 5 September 2023; they achieved a maximum of 25,191 on 12 November 2013; they were equal on average to 9,627.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 1586.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 1660.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 1455.0 |
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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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