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 48,784 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 52,437 on 22 September.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,060 records. The period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 81,814 contracts on 6 October 2009; they reached their lowest level of 30,624 on 11 November 2008; they averaged 51,519.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 47460.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 52437.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 48784.0 |
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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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