COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were -228,657 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus -224,705 on 11 August.
Sample. There are 1,054 observations overall in the weekly series shown in the graph above. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here are some descriptive statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions achieved a maximum of 59,999 contracts on 9 October 2018; they registered a minimum of -264,731 on 4 February 2025; they had a mean of -94,953.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | -207635.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | -224705.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | -228657.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Net long positions held by swap dealers 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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