COT reports: Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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 non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 36,229 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 34,700 on 11 August.
Sample. This weekly series has a total of 1,054 data points. The span of time covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 26,063 contracts; they hit a maximum of 60,944 on 2 October 2012; they recorded a minimum of -15,080 on 4 August 2015.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 28857.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 34700.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 36229.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by non-reporting traders 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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