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 35,814 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 34,348 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 159 records overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The series covers the time range going from December 2020 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions attained a maximum of 51,903 contracts on 18 November 2025; they registered a minimum of 10,626 on 15 November 2022; they had an average value of 24,728.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 31096.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 34348.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 35814.0 |
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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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