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 2,260 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 2,279 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions achieved a maximum of 17,261 contracts on 16 September 2014; they reached a trough of 0 on 3 October 2023; they averaged 3,914.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 2301.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 2279.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 2260.0 |
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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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