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." stood at 583 contracts on 31 March 2026, compared to 0 on 24 March.
Sample. There are 139 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the graph above. The series covers the time span stretching from December 2020 to March 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions reached a maximum of 3,077 contracts on 29 August 2023; they recorded a minimum of 0 on 13 January 2026; they were equal on average to 308.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-03-17 | 0.0 |
| 2026-03-24 | 0.0 |
| 2026-03-31 | 583.0 |
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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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