COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in gold futures: GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. (number of contracts) - United States - CFTC - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Gold 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), compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 15,591 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 14,003 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 34,595 contracts; they registered a minimum of 949 on 2 August 2011; they reached their highest level of 138,816 on 6 November 2007.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 17502.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 14003.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 15591.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in gold 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: GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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