COT reports: Net long positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 5,578 contracts on 19 May 2026, versus 5,865 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 146 data points in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The span of time covered by the series extends from December 2020 to May 2026.
History. Here are some simple statistics we computed on the full sample: positions averaged 847 contracts; they recorded a minimum of -390 on 11 June 2024; they achieved a maximum of 5,984 on 24 March 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 5786.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 5865.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 5578.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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