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 13,643 contracts on 17 February 2026, versus 15,737 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 1,028 records in the weekly series presented in the graph above. The period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to February 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at some simple statistics we computed 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 were equal on average to 37,087.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 14072.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 15737.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 13643.0 |
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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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