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 66,499 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 67,974 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. This weekly time series has 1,045 data points in total. The time period covered by the series stretches from June 2006 to June 2026.
History. Have a look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the whole sample: positions hit a maximum of 174,771 contracts on 1 December 2020; they recorded a minimum of -23,663 on 30 July 2013; they had a mean value of 56,919.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 63841.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 67974.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 66499.0 |
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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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