COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 18,704 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 19,092 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations in the weekly time series presented in the chart above. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few statistics computed on the whole sample: positions reached a trough of 14,682 contracts on 25 February 2025; they achieved a maximum of 126,365 on 5 November 2019; they averaged 63,219.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 20753.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 19092.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 18704.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Long positions held by swap dealers 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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