COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in palladium futures of the kind "PALLADIUM - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE" were 2,027 contracts on 27 January 2026, versus 1,947 on 20 January.
Sample. In the weekly series presented in the figure, there are 1,025 data points in total. The period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to January 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions recorded their highest level of 6,463 contracts on 12 January 2016; they recorded a minimum of 282 on 4 December 2007; they averaged 1,743.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-01-13 | 1952.0 |
| 2026-01-20 | 1947.0 |
| 2026-01-27 | 2027.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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