COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 4,002 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 3,936 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 observations in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series is from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics computed on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 0 contracts on 3 October 2023; they recorded a maximum of 17,261 on 16 September 2014; they had a mean of 3,950.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 3724.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 3936.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 4002.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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