COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -21,263 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to -26,777 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,060 records. The time period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics we computed on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 12,295 contracts on 3 December 2013; they recorded a bottom of -223,009 on 22 June 2010; they were equal on average to -94,520.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | -28061.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | -26777.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | -21263.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by producers and merchants 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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