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." were 39,463 contracts on 29 September 2026, versus 44,496 on 22 September 2026.
Sample. There are 1,060 records in the weekly series displayed in the plot above. The series covers the span of time extending from June 2006 to September 2026.
History. Here's a snapshot of a few statistics calculated on the entire sample: positions had an average value of 130,925 contracts; they recorded a maximum of 290,583 on 6 September 2011; they reached their lowest level of 25,175 on 23 June 2026.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-15 | 44457.0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 44496.0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 39463.0 |
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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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