COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders 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 all reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 17,883 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 17,740 on 20 January.
Sample. There are 1,025 records in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their maximum of 44,022 contracts on 29 July 2014; they reached a minimum of 4,675 on 6 September 2022; they averaged 20,534.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 17943.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 17740.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 17883.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all reporting traders 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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