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 51,347 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 51,051 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the period extending from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 51,520 contracts; they registered a minimum of 30,624 on 11 November 2008; they reached their highest level of 81,814 on 6 October 2009.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 44531.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 51051.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 51347.0 |
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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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