COT reports: Short positions held by other 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 other reporting traders in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 19,711 contracts on 29 September 2026, compared to 19,819 on 22 September.
Sample. This weekly series has 1,060 records in total. The series covers the time span going from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here are some summary statistics we calculated on the entire sample: positions averaged 29,155 contracts; they recorded their highest level of 79,836 on 12 September 2017; they recorded a bottom of 3,663 on 31 October 2006.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 18443.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 19819.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 19711.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by other 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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