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 38,438 contracts on 31 March 2026, versus 35,501 on 24 March 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has a total of 1,034 observations. The time range covered by the series goes from June 2006 to March 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few simple statistics computed on the whole sample: positions peaked at 60,944 contracts on 2 October 2012; they hit a trough of -15,080 on 4 August 2015; they had a mean value of 25,949.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 38779.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 35501.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 38438.0 |
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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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