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 354,913 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 349,258 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 records overall in the weekly time series presented in the graph above. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few descriptive statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a maximum of 735,286 contracts on 14 January 2020; they reached a minimum of 227,538 on 9 December 2008; they were equal on average to 415,152.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 327020.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 349258.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 354913.0 |
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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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