COT reports: Long positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 51,821 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 52,916 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 observations in the weekly series shown in the plot above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions had an average value of 51,570 contracts; they hit a peak of 81,814 on 6 October 2009; they recorded a bottom of 30,624 on 11 November 2008.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 56610.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 52916.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 51821.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by non-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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