COT reports: Long positions held by non-reporting traders in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 37,348 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 36,343 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 146 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The time range covered by the series goes from December 2020 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 23,941 contracts; they recorded a bottom of 10,626 on 15 November 2022; they reached a maximum of 51,903 on 18 November 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 36668.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 36343.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 37348.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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