COT reports: Long positions held by money managers 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 money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 131,711 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 135,699 on 22 September.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are a total of 1,060 data points. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions reached their minimum of 54,019 contracts on 24 October 2006; they attained a maximum of 300,070 on 5 July 2016; they averaged 147,410.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 142394.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 135699.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 131711.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long 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: "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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