COT reports: Long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 90,421 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 93,576 on 10 February.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,028 records in total. The time period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded their highest level of 191,676 contracts on 21 December 2020; they reached a trough of 35,377 on 25 July 2006; they were equal on average to 86,180.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 95572.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 93576.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 90421.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by other 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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