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" were 18,366 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 18,194 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time span covered by the series extends from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions averaged 21,570 contracts; they peaked at 45,440 on 29 July 2014; they recorded a bottom of 5,875 on 30 August 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 18574.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 18194.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 18366.0 |
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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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