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" stood at 2,835 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 2,837 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 1,034 data points in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached their lowest level of 0 contracts on 3 October 2023; they reached their highest level of 17,261 on 16 September 2014; they were equal on average to 3,944.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 2810.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 2837.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 2835.0 |
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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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