COT reports: Long positions held by all reporting traders 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), long positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 332,243 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 326,545 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,041 records in total. The series covers the time range going from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Take a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions reached their lowest level of 227,538 contracts on 9 December 2008; they hit a maximum of 735,286 on 14 January 2020; they had a mean of 416,336.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 318680.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 326545.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 332243.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by all reporting traders 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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