COT reports: Long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 18,200 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 17,719 on 22 September.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 1,060 records. The series covers the period stretching from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few statistics we calculated on the whole sample: positions registered a minimum of 8,209 contracts on 2 September 2025; they hit a maximum of 112,727 on 16 July 2013; they were equal on average to 36,405.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 16396.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 17719.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 18200.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by producers and merchants 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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