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." were 16,113 contracts on 16 June 2026, compared to 18,035 on 9 June 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are 150 records. The series covers the time span going from December 2020 to June 2026.
History. Here's a glimpse of a few descriptive statistics computed on the entire sample: positions peaked at 40,390 contracts on 2 September 2025; they hit a trough of 5,346 on 10 May 2022; they averaged 19,698.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-06-02 | 13784.0 |
| 2026-06-09 | 18035.0 |
| 2026-06-16 | 16113.0 |
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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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