COT reports: Net long positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 80,541 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 80,278 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly time series, there are 1,054 records overall. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded a minimum of -23,663 contracts on 30 July 2013; they achieved a maximum of 174,771 on 1 December 2020; they had an average value of 57,033.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 66868.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 80278.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 80541.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by other 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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