COT reports: Long positions held by swap dealers in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 6,970 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 6,755 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 159 observations in the weekly time series shown in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series extends from December 2020 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions hit a trough of 0 contracts on 23 November 2021; they attained a maximum of 6,970 on 18 August 2026; they were equal on average to 1,318.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 6810.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 6755.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 6970.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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