COT reports: Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 22,338 contracts on 6 October 2026, compared to 25,796 on 29 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,061 observations in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to October 2026.
History. Here are some statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions peaked at 82,688 contracts on 21 July 2015; they recorded a bottom of 2,910 on 3 October 2006; they averaged 27,072.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | 25,113.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 25,796.0 |
| 2026-10-06 | 22,338.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Compensated (spread) positions held by swap dealers 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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