COT reports: Short positions held by all reporting traders 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), short positions held by all reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 39,898 contracts on 18 August 2026, versus 35,004 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 159 records overall in the weekly time series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time range extending from December 2020 to August 2026.
History. Check out a few descriptive statistics calculated on the full sample: positions attained a maximum of 71,014 contracts on 18 November 2025; they reached their minimum of 8,154 on 2 May 2023; they averaged 26,518.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 31954.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 35004.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 39898.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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