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 16,883 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 15,716 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time range stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Have a look at a few statistics we calculated on the full sample: positions reached their maximum of 112,727 contracts on 16 July 2013; they hit a minimum of 8,209 on 2 September 2025; they had an average value of 36,514.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 15738.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 15716.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 16883.0 |
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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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