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." stood at 66,293 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 73,607 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 1,041 records overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 56,893 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 174,771 on 1 December 2020; they recorded a bottom of -23,663 on 30 July 2013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 69049.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 73607.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 66293.0 |
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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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