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 83,084 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 81,704 on 9 June.
Sample. There are 1,045 records in the weekly series presented in the chart above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few simple statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions achieved a maximum of 191,676 contracts on 21 December 2020; they reached their minimum of 35,377 on 25 July 2006; they had a mean value of 86,195.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 76729.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 81704.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 83084.0 |
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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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