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." stood at 310,792 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 354,652 on 24 March.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 1,034 data points. The period covered by the series is from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions reached a minimum of 227,538 contracts on 9 December 2008; they recorded their maximum of 735,286 on 14 January 2020; they averaged 417,000.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 358475.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 354652.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 310792.0 |
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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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