COT reports: Short positions held by all 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 391,142 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 383,958 on 11 August.
Sample. In the weekly time series displayed in the plot, there are a total of 1,054 observations. The time period covered by the series goes from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 239,255 contracts on 9 December 2008; they achieved a maximum of 765,870 on 14 January 2020; they had an average value of 441,215.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 355877.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 383958.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 391142.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by all 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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