COT reports: Short positions held by producers and merchants 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 producers and merchants in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." stood at 32,714 contracts on 19 May 2026, compared to 31,639 on 12 May 2026.
Sample. There are 1,041 data points overall in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the time span stretching from June 2006 to May 2026.
History. Here's a peek at some simple statistics computed on the entire sample: positions averaged 132,621 contracts; they attained a maximum of 290,583 on 6 September 2011; they hit a trough of 26,028 on 1 November 2022.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-05-05 | 32010.0 |
| 2026-05-12 | 31639.0 |
| 2026-05-19 | 32714.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by producers and merchants 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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