COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 16,449 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 15,387 on 22 September.
Sample. There are 1,060 data points overall in the weekly time series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few descriptive statistics computed on the full sample: positions reached a minimum of 9,905 contracts on 25 July 2006; they reached their maximum of 47,445 on 4 August 2015; they had an average value of 25,404.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 16077.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 15387.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 16449.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by non-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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