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 118,025 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 118,283 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The series covers the time span extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Check out some summary statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions hit a trough of 35,377 contracts on 25 July 2006; they hit a peak of 191,676 on 21 December 2020; they had an average value of 86,414.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 115665.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 118283.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 118025.0 |
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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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