COT reports: Short positions held by swap dealers 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 swap dealers in gold futures of the kind "GOLD - COMMODITY EXCHANGE INC." were 247,361 contracts on 18 August 2026, compared to 243,797 on 11 August 2026.
Sample. There are 1,054 records in the weekly series presented in the plot above. The time span covered by the series goes from June 2006 to August 2026.
History. Take a look at some statistics computed on the full sample: positions hit a peak of 344,870 contracts on 31 December 2019; they reached their lowest level of 35,604 on 15 December 2015; they had an average value of 158,172.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of contracts |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-04 | 228388.0 |
| 2026-08-11 | 243797.0 |
| 2026-08-18 | 247361.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Short positions held by swap dealers 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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