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 38,714 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 36,664 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few summary statistics calculated on the full sample: positions averaged 34,825 contracts; they reached a trough of 949 on 2 August 2011; they hit a peak of 138,816 on 6 November 2007.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 37353.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 36664.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 38714.0 |
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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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