COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by money managers in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 143 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 1 on 12 May.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 146 data points. The series covers the time range going from December 2020 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at some statistics computed on the entire sample: positions reached their lowest level of 0 contracts on 13 January 2026; they reached their highest level of 1,424 on 9 January 2024; they averaged 63.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 34.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 1.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 143.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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