COT reports: Short positions held by non-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 non-reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 19,114 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 18,563 on 12 May.
Sample. There are 146 observations in the weekly time series presented in the plot above. The span of time covered by the series extends from December 2020 to May 2026.
History. Here’s a quick look at a few simple statistics computed on the full sample: positions registered a minimum of 5,346 contracts on 10 May 2022; they reached their highest level of 40,390 on 2 September 2025; they had an average value of 19,740.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 18144.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 18563.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 19114.0 |
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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: MICRO GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC. |
| FSR temporal aggregation code | LW1 |
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