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 24,202 contracts on 17 February 2026, compared to 24,046 on 10 February.
Sample. There are 133 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the figure above. The series covers the time period going from December 2020 to February 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of some summary statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions recorded their maximum of 40,390 contracts on 2 September 2025; they reached a minimum of 5,346 on 10 May 2022; they averaged 19,529.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-02-03 | 24838.0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 24046.0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 24202.0 |
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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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