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 21,831 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 18,944 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. The weekly series displayed in the graph has 1,041 records overall. The period covered by the series extends from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Have a look at a few summary statistics we computed on the full sample: positions recorded their highest level of 79,836 contracts on 12 September 2017; they reached a trough of 3,663 on 31 October 2006; they averaged 29,328.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 19412.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 18944.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 21831.0 |
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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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