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 23,735 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 26,408 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. In this weekly series, there are a total of 159 observations. The series covers the span of time extending from December 2020 to August 2026.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we computed on the whole sample: positions recorded a bottom of 5,346 contracts on 10 May 2022; they reached a maximum of 40,390 on 2 September 2025; they had a mean of 20,013.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 23554.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 26408.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 23735.0 |
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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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