COT reports: Total open positions (open interest) 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), total open positions (open interest) in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" stood at 17,259 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 17,419 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly time series presented in the plot has 1,041 observations. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 45,440 contracts on 29 July 2014; they reached a minimum of 5,875 on 30 August 2022; they averaged 21,617.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 15985.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 17419.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 17259.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Total open positions (open interest) 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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