COT reports: Net long positions held by producers and merchants in gold futures: MICRO 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 "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 232 contracts on 19 May 2026, the same as on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 146 data points overall in the weekly series shown in the chart above. The time range covered by the series is from December 2020 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some descriptive statistics we computed on the full sample: positions were equal on average to 3 contracts; they recorded a bottom of -398 on 2 May 2023; they achieved a maximum of 313 on 14 October 2025.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 232.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 232.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 232.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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