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 7 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 64 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 159 observations in the weekly time series presented in the figure above. The series covers the period stretching from December 2020 to August 2026.
History. Check out some descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions had a mean of 66 contracts; they reached a maximum of 1,424 on 9 January 2024; they hit a trough of 0 on 13 January 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 94.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 64.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 7.0 |
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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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