COT reports: Short positions held by money managers 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 money managers in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 816 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 575 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 165 observations in the weekly time series displayed in the graph above. The time range covered by the series extends from December 2020 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached their lowest level of 0 contracts on 13 January 2026; they recorded their maximum of 3,077 on 29 August 2023; they averaged 306.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 215.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 575.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 816.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by money managers 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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