COT reports: Net long positions held by money managers 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), net long positions held by money managers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 141,648 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 137,662 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly series displayed in the chart above. The series covers the span of time stretching from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few summary statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached their minimum of -109,454 contracts on 9 October 2018; they hit a maximum of 273,076 on 5 July 2016; they had a mean of 106,750.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 130766.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 137662.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 141648.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by money managers 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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