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." stood at 88,124 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 92,551 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time period stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some simple statistics calculated on the whole sample: positions had a mean of 86,221 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 191,676 on 21 December 2020; they reached their minimum of 35,377 on 25 July 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 88461.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 92551.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 88124.0 |
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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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